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Number 8: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 70 Years
Price Five Cents
Development Fund
Receives $98,224.61
During Last Y ear
The 1952 Development Fund re
ceived $98,224.61 from 8,201 A&M
former and present students and
friends, said today J. B. (Dick)
Hervey, secretary of the Former
Students Association. This is an
all time high in amount of money,
he said.
From these gifts, $19,000 was
added to the Opportunity Awards;
the All-Faith Chapel fund is now
$38,465.95; the College president’s
fund received $1,000; and for the
publication of The Texas Aggie
and maintanence of the FSA of
fice, $22,000 has been alloted, Her
vey said.
“Gifts restricted in accordance
with wishes of the donors account
ed for $26,758.66 of the over-all
total,” the FSA’s secretary said.
Hervey explained that most of
the amount was applied to Oppor
tunity Awards scholarships.
Chapel—1953 Goal
The 1953 Development Fund
which opened Jan. 1 has as its
principal objective the campus
chapel. “Men are already sending
their gifts and early trends indi
cate another outstanding year in
1953,” Hervey said.
‘Fight Polio'
Benifit Parly
Set Saturday
A community game session for
the benefit of the March of Dimes
will be held in the Country Club
from 7 to 11 p. m. Saturday.
Cards, forty-two, and dominoes
will be played, and coffee will be
served.
“It will be just a come-and-go
affair,” said Ernest Gregg of the
March of Dimes committee. “We
hope to have enough people there
to keep 100 tables busy.”
Admission price for the night
will be one dollai - , and all pro
ceeds will go to the March of
Dimes polio campaign.
The committee is asking for vol
unteers to bring card tables, cards,
and dominoes to the game. Gi'egg
said that all equipment brought
would be marked to insure return.
He said to notify Mrs., B. L. Dayis,
telephone 6-1783, about bringing
>quipment.
In his bi-monthly letter to for
mer students, President of the
Association A. F. (Smiley) Mitch
ell of Corsicana said:” The open
door of 1953 presents to us visions
of a greater A&M. It presents a
challenge and each individual must
do his share.”
The amount of money given by
A&M men to the 1952 Fund estab
lished a new record, previously
held by the 1949 Fund when $94,-
()()().90 was contributed. In total
money the 1952 Fund was short
the $100,900 mark, a long-time
dream, by just under $1,800. Her
vey said. Also encouraging was
the increase in the average unre
stricted gift to $8.71, he added.
Decrease in Contributors
“Not so pleasing is a decrease
in the number of contributory to
the 1952 Fund as compared to
1951. This year’s 8,201 contribut
ors fell short of the numbers of
A&M men contidbuting in 1951,
1949 and 1946, but surpassed the
other fund years since 1943.
“The class of 1942 continued to
lead the pack in number of contri
butors with 417 recorded last year.
The class of' 1943 was second with
387, and 1950 moved into the top
three with 378 contributors, he
said.
In percentage of class members
contributing to the fund, the class
of 1907 maintains its honor spot,
a position it has held for the past
four years, with a near record-
breaking percentage of 81.08.
The class of 1902 came in second
in this category with 71.43 per
cent, and 1899 remained in the
top three with 55.55 per cent of
its class contributing, Hervey said.
“In amount contributed by
classes, the class of 1913 holds the
honor position with $3,911.91. The
class of 1922, number one in this
category in the 1951 Fund, fell to
number two with $2,872.28. A
young newcomer in this category
was 1949, Which finished strong
with a whopping total of $2,869.61.
“Eight classes hold the honor
position in having 50 per cent or
more of their members contri
bute to the fund,” Hervey said.
Local 1952 Rainfall
Rainfall at College station in
1952 totaled 35.65 inches, the main
station farm of A&M reported re
cently. The yearly average for
College Station is 38.80 inches.
CHURCH OF CHRIST—This is how the A&M Church of
Christ will look when repairs and enlarging are completed
early this spring. Seating capacity will be doubled, and
new features are being added to the interior and exterior.
Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott of Bryan are the architects,
with R. B. Butler of Bryan as contractor.
Property Evaluation Raise Not
Issue, School Board Promises
O. H. P. King
Flu Spreading
As Rate Rises
Influenza cases are still in
creasing hi this area, both the
College and Bryan Hospitals
reported last night.
Approximately 100 cases
have been hospitalized on the
campus, the College Hospital
reported.
This number is 40 more than
those hospitalized Tuesday.
College Station cases totaled
148 last week while Bryan had
258. The College Hospital had
36 patients at this time.
The Brazos County Health
Unit reported 128 cases in the
first week of January. De
cember cases reached 264.
A P Writer
Tonight on
Speaks
Korea
O. H. P. King will relate his
Korean War experiences at 7:30
tonight in Guion Hall.
The famous correspondent was
the only Associated Press news
man “on the spot” at the outbreak
of the Korean War, and among
other things, has visited the front
lines with GI’s several times under
intense fire.
There will be no admission
charged to hear King. The affair
is sponsored by The Battalion and
Student Activities.
King has held personal inter
views at one time or another with
nearly every distinguished person
to visit Korea or Japan.
He also has made numerous
flights into enemy territory in
army liaison and observation
planes, and has gone along on
many air force and marine air
combat operations just below the
Yalu River.
King has also made combat
flights from U. S. carriers, and
covered the naval operations off
the east coast of Korea.
The famous correspondent spent
several days at the Koje prison
camp, covered the truce talks at
4 Agriculturist’ Stops
Publication At Once
Publication of the Texas A&M
Agifculturist will be suspended
effective immediately, said Roland
Bing, manager of student publi
cations.
Bing said the magazine was dis
continued due to financial reasons.
Oliver C. (Putter) Jarvis is the
editor.
The decision to stop publication
of the magazine was made, Bing
said, after the Agricultural Coun
cil decided by a vote of 9 to 3
against furnishing $300 to guar
antee publication for the remaind
er of the current school year.
Earlier in the year, the Arts
and Science Council had voted to
give $350 to the Commentator
magagine to guarantee its contin
uance.
Subscribers to The Agricultur
ists will be transferred to The
Commentator mailing list unless
Tractor Over turns
Injuring Worker
Robert Koerth of Brenham was
severely injured Tuesday when the
tractor he was operating stalled
and turned over backward pinning
him against the dirt mover it was
pulling.
Koerth was moved quickly to
Bryan Hospital where his right
hand was amputated.
The construction underway was
about 100 yards north of the new
area dormitories and beside the
campus greenhouses.
He was working for the Robert
J. Langley Construction Company
and was covered by insurance.
Weather Today
FORECAST BRrrr
WEATHER TODAY: Cold and
occasional light rains. A cold front
will move into the College Station
area about 3 or 4 p.m. lowering the
temperature to between 25 and 30
degrees tonight.
A&M Church of Christ Has
Renovation Near Completion
The A&M Church of Christ will
be completed early in spring, said
James F. Fowler today. When
completed, the renovated church
will seat 400 people, twice the ca
pacity of the old building.
“The building project includes
repair to the foundation and walls
of the old building, an enlarged
auditorium Avhich includes a bal
cony, a new entrance and other
improvements,” Fowler said.
The total cost of the project is
between $52,000 and $53,000, said
Fowler, who now is in his seventh
year as minister of the church.
Supervising architect is A. M.
Martin ’42. Caudill, Rowlett and
Scott of Bryan are the architectur
al contractors. Martin is the son
of the late A. D. Martin, who
was an instructor in the mathe
matics department here.
“Mr. Martin was the individual
most responsible for the estab
lishment of the A&M Church of
Christ,” Fowler said. Through his
influence, the minister said, the
land was bought and a building
was built. The church congrega
tion first met in the YMCA in
1922 and presently is meeting
there until the reconstruction is
completed.
Basic Division May Lose
113 ‘Fish’ at Term’s End
Out of the 1,340 freshmen en
rolled in the Basic Division, 113
men indicated they intend to leave
school at the end of the term,
said Dr. John Bertrand, Dean of
the Basic Division.
These men marked their inten
sions on a recent survey taken
throughout the division. Last year
a total of 178 students did not
return for the second semester.
they object, Bing said. Any stu
dent who desires a. refund of his
Agriculturist subscription should
come by the Office of Student Ac
tivities, Bing added.
Appeared in 1940
The Agriculturist first appeared
'on the A&M scene during the
1940-41 school year. Prior to that
time students of the School of
Agriculture and the School of En
gineering had united to produce a
magazine known as “The Scientific
Review.”
With the division of “The Sci
entific Review” into two maga
zines, one for Agricultux-e and the
other for Engineering, student
participation more than doubled
on the staffs of both magagines.
World War II disrupted print
ing of The Agriculturist and the
magazine stayed out of publica
tion until mid-term of the 1946-
47 school year.
Editors of the magazine over
this period included Tom Power,
Roland Bing, Lamar Haines, C. G.
Scruggs, Charles E. Ball, Roger
Blezt, Gerald York, Jim Park, Bee
Landrum, Jim Tom House, Jim
Lehmann, and Jarvis.
Many former editors of the Ag
riculturist occupy responsible pos
itions in the field of agricultural
journalism today, Bing said.
Wet Cold Front
Due Here Today
A wet cold front with freez
ing temperatures is expected
to hit College Station between
3 and 4:30 p.m. today. The
CAA Weather Communications
Station at Easterwood Airport
said the thermometer may
drop as low as 25 tonight.
A light drizzle, which began
this morning, will continue to
fall as the temperature drops,
the weathermen reported.
The cold weather hit the pan
handle this morning, bringing
snow and sleet and tempera
tures of 13 at Amarillo, 22 at
Lubbock, and 31 at Wichita
Falls.
Parking Meters
Used In Polio Fight
All dimes dropped into Bryan
parking meters during this month
will be given to the March of
Dimes for Brazos County, said H.
A. Thomason, Bryan city man
ager.
The dimes will not register any
time on the meters, since it takes
a penny or nickel to operate them.
“It will be an effective way for
local residents to give without
any trouble,” said Jack Kent, head
of the drive in Brazos County.
Panmunjon, and interviewed sev
eral refugees after they had fled
before the returning Reds.
He was one of the three Amer
ican newsmen throughout Korea
when the Communists launched
their invasion of South Korea.
Joining the AP as a fulltime
staff member in 1945, King spent
two months in Seoul in 1949 and
returned for a five-month assign
ment in April, 1950.
After graduating from the Uni
versity of Southern California,
King worked for various news
papers on the west coast. He work
ed many years as a “stringer”
for the AP before becoming a full
time staff member.
He then held varied assignments
in AP’s San Francisco and Seattle
bureaus before entering foreign
service.
Joe E. Wallace
‘RVs—No Guidon.”
Campaign Hot, Ys Bonds
Near Jan. 20 Voting Date
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
The school board last night promised a raise in property
evaluations is not the issue in the $650,000 bond election
Tuesday.
Speaking to about 60 College Hills residents, Don Vestal
of the school board said, “Anyone who makes the evaluation
raise an issue in the election is doing his community a dis-
.tervide. It is not the issue.”
A survey londucted by Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott, an
/architectural firm, has indicated that Consolidated’s enroll
ment will double by 1960. Les Richardson, superintendent,
has said the new facilities which the bond issue would pay
are necessary for the school to maintain its high rating.
Those speaking against the bond proposal at the meeting
emphasized that they were not against new school facilities.
They questioned the need for both a new elementary school
and a new high school, with its^
subsequent raise in taxes.
The meeting started at 7:30
and lasted until 10:30 p. m. Vestal
explained the school board’s plan
and opened the floor to questions.
Debate was fast and occasionally
heated, with the group about div
ided into for and against camps.
“Can College Station support a
$650,000 bond issue?”’ asked R.
E. Patterson.
Patterson said the new bond is
sue, if passed, would increase Col
lege Station’s school bond indebt
edness to $920,000. Vestal said
that a 50 per cent increase in
school taxes would pay off the
proposed bond issue and the four
outstanding issues on the sche
duled time.
Ponder Increase
J. H. Quisenberry said that an
increase in property evaluation
would be unwise, considering that
property values are liable to de
crease. He said that bond buyers
might not consider College Sta
tion a good risk if evaluation
were raised above the present lev
el. The evaluation of all property
in the city is approximately four
(See BOND ISSUE, Page 3)
RYs Are Honor Guard
For Shivers’ Inaugural
Nineteen members of the Ross
Volunteers will form Gov. Allan
Shivers’ honor guard Tuesday in
the Texas governor’s inauguration
at Austin. The group plang to
leave for Austin Tuesday.
Commander of the RVs Joe E.
Wallace of San Antonio said that
A&M’s honor military unit also
will form the guard for the gov
ernor and lieutenant governor in
Creamery Gets
Milk Sale Permit
The Bryan - Brazos County
Health Service has issued permits
to sell milk and milk products in
College Station and Bryan to the
following dairies in accordance to
the U. S. Public Health Service
Standard Milk Ordnance. They
are:
® A&M Creamery, College Sta
tion.
® Borden Company, Houston.
•Carnation Company, Houston
and Austin.
O Lucerne Company, Fort
Worth.
• Sanitary Farm Dairies, Bry
an.
• Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc.,
Houston.
A permit for the sale of Grade
A Raw Goat Milk was issued to
the Caucasian Ranch.
The sale of all other milk in
Bryan and College Station is pro
hibited by the health service.
Sanitary Course
Scheduled Jan. 26
A Sanitary Laboratory Short
Course, sponsored by the civil en
gineering department, will be con
ducted Jan. 26-30.
Registration will be conducted
in the Chemistpy Building, Room
27, at 8 a. m., Jan. 26. There will
be a registration fee of $1 per
person. Joe H. Sorrels of the C.
E. department will be in charge.
The Short Course Office will
furnish necessary forms and per
sonnel to conduct registration.
About 20 are expected to register.
the parade. When Gov. Shivers
leaves his car for the reviewing
stand, he will pass through a
double file of RVs, Wallace said.
“The RVs also will form a sabre
arch for the governor at noon
while a 19-gun salute is being
fired,” the commander said. Shiv
ers will walk through the arch to
his speaking stand where he wall
make his inaugural addres.
Tuesday night the A&M stu
dents will be guests at the inaug
ural ball at Gregory Gymnasium
on the University of Texas cam
pus.
“One thing bothers us,” Wallace
said. “We have lost our guidon,
and we need it for the parade.”
Officers of the RVs are Danny
Howell of Coleman, executive of
ficer; Guy Shown, of San Antonio
first platoon leader; Lyle Wolf-
skill of Houston, second platoon
leader; Ralph Wallingford of
Franklin, third platoon leader;
C. F. (Sharpie) Hornstein of Vic
toria, administrative officer; Jack
Thornton of Edroy, first sergeant.
Deadline Is Set
Friday For
Room Changes
Students now enrolled in
A&M who expect to attend
school during the spring se
mester should pay fees and re
serve their rooms, said Harry
L. Boyer, Chief of Housing.
The following procedure should
be followed:
© Veterans will secure fee
waiver slips from the Vete
rans Advisor’s Office, Room
102 Goodwin Hall.
• All students pay fees at the
Fiscal Office in the New Ad
ministration Building.
© Roomp should be reserved at
the Housing Office according
to the following schedule:
Students who wish to reserve
the rooms they now occupy should
register before Friday noon, Jan.
16.
Men who wish to reserve any
room other than the one they now
occupy, including students moving
into the 12 dormitory area or
into non-military doims, may be
fore Friday noon, by presenting
written permission (room change
slips) from the new housemaster
or organization commander con
cerned.
All remaining rooms will be
available on a first come, first
served basis beginning at 1 p.m.
Friday.
All students moving from a mil
itary dormitory to a non-military
dormitory, who are not dropping
military or air science at mid-term
must secure written permission
from the assistant commandant
in Ross Hall before reserving a
room.
Day students, including those
living in college apartments, are
reminded that they also may save
considerable time in the registi’a-
tion procedure by paying fees
early.
Anyone who is not a day student
at present but who is planning to
be a day student at the beginning
of the spring semester must secure
a day student permit from the
housing office before paying fees.
Four A&M Debators Set
3,282 Mile Midwest Tour
Four members of the A&M de
bate team will visit and compete
against nine colleges on a 3,282
mile trip between semesters. The
team will be gone 14 days, visit
ing mid-west colleges.
John S. Samuels of Galveston,
Joe A. Riddle of Dallas, Bert Wel
ler of Harlingen, Kenneth L.
Scott of Dallas will make the
tour. The debaters will discuss
the FEPC issue.
The group will leave Jan. 22
for Chicago where they will meet
the University of Chicago team
on Jan. 26. They will return Feb.
5.
The rest of the schedule is:
Jan. 27—Northwestern Univer
sity at Chicago.
Jan. 28—Wayne University at
Detroit.
Jan. 29—Kent University at
Kent, Ohio.
Jan. 30—Denison University at
Granville, Ohio.
Jan. 31—Ohio State at Colum
bus, Ohio.
Feb. 2—Purdue University, La
fayette, Ind.
Feb. 4—Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tenn.
Accompanying the team will be
Frank N. Manitzas, Battalion co
editor, who will act as an admin
istrative assistant.
Samuels, a junior has been on
the debate team for the last two
years, while Riddle and Weller,
both seniors, are starting their
fourth year. Scott is a sophomore
and debated last year for A&M.
Scott placed third at the Univer
sity of Texas Round Up tourna
ment.
Riddle and Weller, while debat
ing as a team in 1951, won first
place in the Texas tournament and
won seven of nine debates at the
Grand National Forensic meet at
Fredericksburg, Va. in 1952. They
place 13th among the 75 teams
entered.