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Number 7: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 70 Years
Price Five Cents
Flu Reaches Peak?
'Local Doctors Say
HIGH PRICED TURKEY—Don Draper, 15 (right), A&M
Consolidated freshman, sold this 15 pound dressed turkey
for $95 a pound. Bill Williams (left) of Houston bought
the bird at the auction held in Dallas by the National
Turkey Federation at their annual convention. Draper’s
turkey was grand champion in the junior division of the
turkey show, and sold for a total of $1,425.
Extension Service
Marks 50th Year
Ric hardson Re leases
School ‘Rond’ Budget
i An increase of influenza cases is
believed by College Station doctors
to be leveling off after an upward
surge to 406 cases in this area last
week. The increase was reported
by the Bryan-Brazos County
Health Unit.
Dr. Joseph Cox, president of the
county medical society, said he
thought the increase was finally
at a peak level.
“It has been pretty stiff, and I
hope it doesn’t reach the epidemic
stage,” he said.
There were 60 cases of influenza
in the college hospital yesterday.
Mrs. Irene Claghom, supervisor
of the hospital, said she couldn’t
tell whether or not, the ‘flu’ would
continue to rise on the campus.
Dr. E. E. Holt said he felt the
number of cases reported last week
indicated a possible epidemic. He
said he had treated twice as many
cases this week as he had last
week.
Danger Passed
However, Dr. Nena Harris felt
the danger of epidemic has passed.
^ “Although I have treated more
cases this week, I think the num
ber of oases will level off,” she
said.
Several cities in Texas have al
ready closed down schools and
theaters, but no such action has
been taken yet in College Station.
In the first week in January,
128 cases of ‘flu’ were reported by
the health unit, and only 264 cases
were reported for the month of
December. Last week the college
hospital reported 36 cases.
Of the 406 cases in this area
last week, 148 cases were in Col
lege Station and 258 cases were
in Bryan.
In other parts of Texas, the
Associated Press reports that
thousands of Texas school children
Utayed home sick Tuesday as flu
Hosed schools in at least 19 cities
end towns.
, Hundreds of adults were strick
en too, and state health officer Dr.
George W. Cox warned that the
influenza—a mild form—could turn
into pneumonia.
Take Care
“The people should take care of
themselves,” he said. “If you’ve
got a temperature, go to bed, get
a doctor.”
Cox said 25,000 cases were re
ported last week in 60 counties and
Phi Kappa Phi, national honor
society for all fields of higher
learning has elected 68 new mem
bers from men who are graduatihg
in January, June and August. Re
quirements to be in the society
that one must be in the upper 10
per cent of his class and have a
2.5 grade point ratio.
These are the new members as
elected:
Agricultm’e (June and August
graduates)—William M. Huffman,
Gene Earl Steed, William Hamil
ton Jr., Thomas Leon Payne, Shel
ton G. Black, Leo B. Bockholt,
Charles R. Zeigler, Charles Renfro
Slone.
1 January and June
Arts and Sciences (January
Graduates)—Clifford Elton La-
, ‘}VIotte and Dwight Edward King.
June and August graduates—
Robert E. Huffman, Robert L. An
drews Jr., Otto A. Prather Jr., Ed
Pete Rodrigues, Robert W. Palmer,
Floyd P. Folsom, Harry J. Keib-
Wealher Today
CLEAR
WEATHER TODAY: Clear to
partly cloudy. The low this morn
ing was 59 and the high yesterday
five counties—Milam, Hill, Kim
ball, Harrison and Dawson — re
ported epidemics. These counties
gave no figures on the number of
cases.
At this time last year, there
were 7,000 cases of influenza re
ported.
Cox said the incidence of flu was
increasing and that he could not
predict when the peak would be
reached or when the decline would
start.
March of Dimes
Athletic Show
Set for Jan, 23
Brazos County will strike a
blow against polio in a March
of Dimes Benefit Game and
Sports Show Jan. 23.
The show, which will be
in DeWare Field House, will fea
ture a basketball game between
the defending national junior col
lege champion Wharton Pioneer’s
and the defending State TJCC
Champion Allen Ramblers.
Coming from Wharton to sup
port the team will be the Star-
lettes, a group of 48 girls who do
precision marching and dance rou
tines. As an added attraction over
100 twirlers chosen from neighbor
ing high schools will be present.
The show will also include All-
Americans Don Rhodden of Rice
and Jack Little of A&M, who will
appear along with All-Southwest
quarterback Ray Graves and
A&M’s athletic director, Barlow
“Bones” Irvin.
Baseball star’s who will appear
in the show include Mike Misto-
vich, former minor league player
and manager, and Rip Collins, ex-
major leaguer who is now Chief
of Police in Bryan. Mistovich, who
is program director of radio sta
tion KORA, will act as master of
ceremonies.
Track representatives who will
appear along with Aggie track
coach Andy Anderson include
A&M’s Darrow Hooper, and Wal
ter Davis.
Tennis and boxing stars will
also be present.
lei’, James Tillotson, William P.
Singleton, Walter G. Crane.
Engineering (January Gradu
ates—Robert Franklin Brown, Ar
thur William Hubertus, Richard
Frank Dolan, Huel Clive Tucker,
David Jonathan Engel, Robert I.
Bradford. s June and August Grad
uates—Weldon D. Kruger, E. W.
Hegmann, Foster L. Gray, Don
ald B. Hall, Joe B. Mattei, Robei’t
Burgher Killian, John Louis Park,
Jarrell B. Mugg, Lawrence M.
Whaley, Richard M. Zeek, George
W. Berner, T. A. Rother Jr., James
I. Jordan, Robert L. Hartung, John
C. Burke, Jimmy E. Curtis, Julius
J. Kelt Jr., William Raymond Wil-
shire, John Gibbs Leatherman,
Richard C. Faulkner, Willard R.
Gi-een, Willie A. Crabtree, Fred R.
Wauters, Joel E. Lovell, Robert
Stith Boykin, Richard David Lock
hart, Joseph R. Di’ake, W. L. Sabo,
L. O. Hill.
Veterinary (June Graduate)—F.
J. Koenig.
Graduate School
Graduate School (January Grad
uates)—John W. Holcomb, Lindley
Eric Flanagan Jr., Charles Emil
Swenson, Basil L. Howl. August
Graduates — Richard Vrooman,
Jack R. Donnell, Patrick Burney
Hall, B. J. Joyce, Donald Charles
Hook, Robert Lee Gerhart, William
Bryant Cowan Jr., Wesley Kenton
Summers, Vohnnie Lee Pearson Jr.
All persons who are within one
semester of graduation and meet
the requirements above are eligi
ble. Phi Kappa Phi is the second
oldest honor society in the coun
try and the standards for election
are higher than those of any other
society at A&M.
There are no programs, func
tions or duties that go with elec
tion to Phi Kappa Phi. One inia-
tion banquet is held in the spring,
but the main purpose of the society
is to pi’omote scholarship.
The committee for election of
new members met last Thursday,
Jan. 8. Notices were sent to pros
pective members on Saturday.
Starting as a farm demonstra
tion in 1903 established to combat
the cotton boll weevil, the Agri
cultural Extension Service is cele
brating its 50th anniversary this
year.
Di\ Seaman A. Knapp, repre
senting the United States depart
ment of agriculture, established
the first fai-m demonstration in
the nation on the farm of Walter
Porter near Terrell. It was in
1903 that the boll weevil, an in
sect invader from Mexico, was
Employees Club to
Hear Combo Play
A combo of Latin American
students under the direction of
Guillermo Cardenas will present
an interlude of Spanish music be
tween the dinner and dance of the
Employees Dinner Dance Club in
the MSC Ballroom at 7:30 p. m.
Thursday.
Mrs. C. F. Richardson is chair
man for the event, assisted by
Dr. Walter Delaplane, A. C. Ma
gee, and Mrs. Donald D. Bur-
chard.
An ihaugural theme has been
planned for the occasion and will
be carried out in the table decora
tions. Reminders decorated with
elephants have been distributed to
all departments this week.
Tickets for the dinner will be
available until 5 p. m. Tuesday in
the offices of the deans of arts
and science, engineering, agricul
ture, and in the departments of
oceanography and agronomy. Tick
ets also will be on sale at the
main desk of the MSC until 2
p. m. Wednesday.
Boy Scouts Invited
To Area Meeting
College Station Boy Scouts have
been invited to the annual Sam
Houston Area Council meeting.
The meeting will be held Jan.
23 in the Crystal Ballroom of the
Rice Hotel with Governor Allan
Shivers the principal speaker.
Tickets for the banquet, are
available through D. D. Burchard,
chairman of the Brazos County
Council. Women may also attend
the banquet.
The members will separate into
committee sessions for the discus
sion of council operating business
which includes camping, advance
ment, finance, organization, exten
sion, health, safety, and publicity.
The meeting is expected to con
clude by 9 p. m., so members may
return home before too late an
hour, Burchard said.
Home Town Clubs
Hold HS Day Meet
A meeting of the Presidents of
the Home Town Clubs will be held
five o’clock, today in room 301 in
Goodwin Hall, said W. D. Hardes
ty, business manager for Student
Activities.
Purpose of the meeting will be
to discuss plans for High School
Day on March 14, Hardesty said.
threatening to ruin the Texas cot
ton crop.
Improved Methods
Through the use of improved
methods of farming and manage
ment, Dr. Knapp showed the boll
weevil could be controlled. This
demonstration set the pattern by
which the agricultural extension
work throughout the nation has
developed.
In 1904 Farmer’s Cooperative
Demonstration Work was begun in
the Bureau of Plant Industry,
USDA, with Dr. Knapp in chai’ge.
The headquarters were first set
up in Houston, but were later
moved to Lake Charles, La. When
the ext^hsion service work became
national, the headquarters was
set up in Washington, D. C.
The first agricultural agent to
work exclusively in one county, W.
C. Stallings of Smith County, was
appointed in 1906.
In 1908 County Agricultural
Agent Tom Marks organized the
first boys’ corn club in Texas.
This was the beginning of the
youth phase of extension service
work—the 4-H clubs. Two years
later 1,500 boys attended the first
state rally at the State Fair in
Dallas.
A&M became a part of the rap
idly expanding demonstration
(See EXTENSION, Page 4)
January graduates in the Army
ROTC are still dazed from the an
nouncement of active duty within
60 days after graduation.
Some were found in bed trying
to sleep off the effects of the ser
ies of contradicting orders that
have come in the past month from
the Department of Army. Some
were found attending final classes
while others were seen busy with
final preparations for graduation.
These were taking the change
with varied degrees of shock.
Arnold Damon, Houston jour
nalism major, said, ‘It came as a
surprise being the third such or
der published by the Department
of Army in recent days.” Damon
is in the armored cavalry.
“S’way it goes,” said Charles
Thomas, from Perryton. Thomas
asked for immediate service and
plans to go in about the first of
February. “You can’t get much of
a job for just 60 days,” he said.
He had a job offer before this an
nouncement.
Val Cadena, Del Rio, was per
haps the most disappointed of stu-
Profs Will Judge
In Livestock Show
Four A&M instructors will act
as judges for the fourth annual
San Antonio Livestock Exposition
Feb. 20 to Mar. 1.
They are Dr. J. C. Miller, head
of the animal husbandry depart
ment; Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of
the dairy husbandry department;
John H. Jones and F. I. Dahlberg,
both of the animal husbandry de
partment.
Dr. Miller will judge fat steers;
Dr. Rupel will judge Holstein cat
tle; Jones will sift fat lambs; and
Dahlberg will sift fat swine.
MSC Adds $100
To Award Fund;
Total Is $350
An added $100 was added
Monday to the awards and
banquet budget of the MSC by
the Student Center’s Council.
The total budget is now $350.
The money was approved by
the Council for use in the annual
banquet and award presentation to
be held in the spring.
Three gifts to the MSC were de
scribed to the council by J. Wayne
Stark, director. The gifts are an
international clock from an A&M
Mothers Club, a vue-lyte project
or from the civil engineering de
partment, and a set of old and
rare Britannica Encyclopedias pre
sented by O. W. Bradley of Bryan.
An awai'ds committee composed
of Lamar McNew, council presi
dent; J. S. Samuels, council vice
president; councilman Carroll Phil
lips; Dial Martin, faculty member;
and Stark.
Awards will be presented to
present council members and those
of past councils. A president’s
award was established to present
him with a picture of himself
which will be placed permanently
in the president’s office in the
MSC. The spring banquet will in
clude members of the directorate
and the council and guests.
Scrolls will be presented to
members of the directorate and
council, staff advisors, and 24
general scrolls to outstanding
workers in the MSC’s programs.
Representative-elect B. H. Dew
ey Jr., a Bryan attorney, will be
sworn in Tuesday as Representa
tive from the 44th District (Brazos
County) in the 53rd Texas Legis
lature.
Before leaving for Austin, Dew
ey named, some of the principal
problems facing the next legisla
ture. They were as follows: the
question of more taxes and higher
spending; a stepping-up of the
dents interviewed. He had a job
and was planning to get married
before going into active duty.
“This has fouled all my plans,”
was his sad comment.
Many of the January graduates
had made their plans in accord
ance with the previous announce
ment that, except for the Corps
of Engineers, they would not be
called into active duty before July
1.
Accident Source
Survey Planned
Reduction of accidents through
investigation and surveys are the
future plans of the recreation safe
ty subcommittee of the college’s
Accident Prevention Committee.
Carl E. Tishler, chairman of the
subcommittee, said a record of ac
cidents in intramural activities and
throughout the dormitory areas
would help in finding the source
of accidents.
A survey by the physical educa
tion classes was suggested by Her
man B. Segrest of the P E depart
ment. Tishler appointed Commit
teeman Dr. A. A. Price of the Vet
erinary Medicine School to work
with Segrest in carrying out the
survey.
A tour of the campus to inspect
danger areas will be held after the
survey report is completed, Tish
ler said.
Members of the subcommittee
are Tishler; Segrest; Price; Bar
ney Welch, director of intramurals;
W. M. Dowell of the physical ed
ucation department; Frank N.
Manitzas, co-editor of The Battal
ion.
Les Richardson, superintendent
of A&M Consolidated Schools, re
leased yesterday an itemized bud
get of the $650,000 the school
board is asking for in the Jan. 20
bond issue election.
Speaking before a public meet
ing in the Civil Engineering lec
ture room, Richardson said, “As
far as we can tell, these figm-es
are the amounts that will have to
be spent. If there is any money
left over, that amount of the
bonds would be cancelled.”
The budget is as follows:
New high school with 14 class
rooms, auditorium, shop and music
room $307,630
New elementary school with 6
classrooms ...$75,370.
Architects fee 6 per cent $30,()()().
Bond fee $7,000.
Renovation for present facilities,
including Lincoln:
High School $25,000.
Fumiture $30,000.
Land $50,000.
Desired additional classrooms
and new physical education facil
ities $85,000.
Total $650,000.
The fees for the architect and
the bond are set amounts. Rich
ardson said that the amounts for
land and present school renovation
are estimates. “These are as close
as we can get until we actually
ha^e the money,” he said.
The meeting attended by about
35 people, was called by Joe Orr.
“This meeting is called without
any feeling of opposition to the
school board,” he said. “We just
want to get some information on
the bond election.”
Orr presented a table showing
the amount of school bonds still
being payed on. His figures show
ed that with $351,000 issued in
bonds to date, $270,000 is still
outstanding.
highway construction program;
continuing Gilmer-Aikin and rais
ing minimum salary from $2403
to $3000; amending or repealing
the automobile inspection law and
driver’s responsibility law.
A presidential primary system;
amending and clarifying the pre
sent Texas election laws; soil and
water conservation; and a wide
range of constitutional amend
ments dealing with such matters
as higher pay for the legislators;
lowering the voting age to 18.
Highway financing; four year
terms for county officials; aboli
tion of poll tax; old age pensions;
state financial assistance to sub
divisions of govemment; and many
others. More money is needed for
higher education in Texas, Dewey
said.
State expenses have increased
from $186 million in 1945 to $617
million in 1952, he said.
Returns Friday
Dewey will return to Bryan
Friday.
He won the Democratic nomina
tion last summer, defeating four
opponents, including the incum
bent James K. Presnal who is
now a law student at the Univer
sity of Texas.
Dewey is a graduate of Bryan
High School, A&M and the Uni
versity of Texas Law School. He
has practiced law in Bryan for 11
year’s, except for 41 months service
in World War II.
He is a member of the Pres
byterian Church, Lions Club, Jay-
cees, Masons and the American
Legion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Senior Pictures
Due This Semester
Seniors wanting their pictures
in the Aggieland must have them
made this semester, said Harvey
(Spider) Miller, co-editor of the
college yearbook.
Although no schedule for sopho
mores and juniors has been set,
they may have their pictures taken
now. A schedule will be published
early next semester.
Deadline for Vanity Fair pic
tures is Feb. 15
Few unit snapshots have been
received by the Aggieland staff,
Miller said. Units should turn in
snapshots to the Aggieland
staff, Miller said.
Also presented were the cost of
Bryan’s Crockett school and a
Bryan elementary school. Crockett
cost $296,000. It has 12 rooms,
cafeteria, combination gym and
auditorium, health room, and of
fices. The eight-room elementary
school cost $88,700.
County Has
First Traffic
Fatality of '53
The first traffic death for
Brazos County was Friday at
5:06 p. m. when Carolyn Ann
Olexey, 3, was killed by an
automobile.
The child, apparently fol
lowing her small brother into
the street, was struck and
killed by a car driven by Roy
Edward Byer, 103 Dellwood,
Bryan, police said.
Byer, 19, said he saw the
child’s brother, but did not
see her. He was traveling
about 15 miles when he struck
the child.
After investigating the acci
dent, Sgt. G. S. Moss of the
Bryan Police Department
stated that no charges would
be filed against Byer.
Ear Thiefs Caught
After Wreck Here
Two men have confessed to
stealing an automobile from Cor
pus Christi after being arrested
for colliding with a parked car
on the campus Saturday night,
said Chief Fred Hickman of the
Campus Security Office.
The men, Robert M. Bryan and
Charles Ed McShane, had stolen
the 1950 model Ford from a Cor
pus Christi used car lot Saturday
night and were driving through
the A&M campus when they
wrecked the car.
Patrolman Morris Maddox of the
campus security arrested the two
men as they were attempting to
catch a ride to Houston on High
way 6 “A student saw the two men
leave the parking lot without turn
ing off their headlights and called
the campus security office,” Mad
dox said.
The Texas Highway Patrol and
the Bryan sheriff assisted, Chief
Hickman said.
Woman and Son
Injured by Bus
Mrs. Bardin H. Nelson, 30, of
705 S. Dexter in College Station
and her son, Howard, 5, were hit
by a Bryan city bus yesterday and
almost were No. 2 and No. 3 on
the county’s 1953 traffic fatality
list.
Mrs. Nelson is hospitalized in a
Bryan hospital. Her son was treat
ed for a skinned leg.
The two were hit by the bus as
it turned the corner at 25th and
Main St. The bus passed over Mrs.
Nelson but the wheels of the vehi
cle did not touch her.
Brazos County’s first traffic fu
tility occurred Friday.
Aggie Talent Show
Set For Early Feb.
The Aggie Talent Show has been
postponed until sometime early
in February because of program
ing conflicts, said Miss Betty Bo-
lander, MSC program consultant.
The new date for the show will
be decided Thursday at the meet
ing of the MSC Music Committee
and will be set early enough so
two acts can be chosen for the
Intercollegiate Talent Show, to be
held here March 13, Miss Boland-
er said.
“Auditions are still being held
and we can use more acts for the
show,” she said.
‘Italica’ Publishes
Beberfall Article
Dr. Lester Beberfall of the mod
em languages department has had
an article published in the Decem
ber, 1952 issue of Italica.
The title of the article is “Mey-
er-Lubke’s Treatment of the Part
itive Indefinite Construction in
Italian.” Grammer of Roman Lan
guages was the book Dr. Beberfall
consulted for his article.
Phi Kappa Phi Gets
68 New Members
Army Grads Still Dazed
Over Third Order Change
Dewey Takes Oath
As Representative