• ASS*N FORMER STUDENTS
FE
. 4 COPIES
Circulated Daily 7
To 90 Per Cent
/ Of Local Residents
on
Published By
A&M Students
For 70 Years
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 10: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1053
Price Five Cents
Two
For
In B
Ags Expelled
Using ‘Board’
• Armor- Case
tty JOEL AUSTIN
ttattalion Co-Editor
Two junior Armor students re
ceived indefinite suspension from
the college yesterday after ad
mitting to charges of physical haz
ing in tt Armor Company.
Suspended, effective Jan. 24,
were James Sears, agricultural
education major from Henderson,
and Prince Vickers, Agricultural
Economics major from Pittsburg,
Tex.
tt Armor Company was disband
ed Oct. 23, 1952 because evidence
was found by college authorities
that hazing had taken place and
no one would admit having taken
part in it. As a result all senior
officers were reduced to the grade
of private and moved to a senior
company and juniors were inte
grated into other units. Sopho
mores of B Armor were allowed
to move into A Armor.
Juniors Confess
The two juniors confessed to
the charges after all members of
the company had been tight-lipped
since the incident occurred. Marks
Way Lambastes
Draft Dodgers
in ROTC
College men who join ROTC
programs just to get out of
the draft and others who have
.not felt their sense of duty to
America’s defense program
received a verbal lashing by Col.
John A. Way, PAS&T.
r Speaking to the College Station
Lion’s Club yesterday in the MSC.
Col. Way said the only way to
remove fear of aggression is to
be prepared. No one is foolish
enough to fight a man bigger and
stronger than himself, he said.
“Eighty-two percent of our
Army is reserves,” said Col. Way;
“We are almost entirely put into
this second echelon of defense now.”
He blamed many people for say
ing “Why should I spend time
with a military force while there
is only a police action going qn ?
If there’s a war, I’ll be glad to do
my part.”
‘ “An attitude like that,” said the
PAS&T, “is just like waiting until
the day of a big football game to
practice the signals.”
» He told members of the Lions
Club the end product we want is
a freedom in the hearts and minds
of American people as well as a
free way of life.
“Many people are unwilling to
set aside personal ambitions for
defense. They continue to foster
this ‘business as usual’ feeling,”
said Col. Way.
“Somehow we as parents must
make our children appreciate their
sense of loyalty to their country,”
he said.
Recreation Slated
By City Council
College Station City Council
‘.will meet Wed. in the City Hall at
7 p. m.
Orders of business tabled from
the last meeting include voting on
the Recreation Council’s tax-sup
port oi'dinance and the plan to
raise city evaluations to match the
school board’s proposed evaluation
increase.
Weather Today
WARMER
WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy and
warmer. The high will probably
be in the lower 80’s. The low this
morning was 51,
on five sophomores had indicated
hazing had taken place, and dis
ciplinary action was passed out
to them when they refused to
answer any questions asked at the
time.
It was this refusal of any mem
ber of the unit to answer questions
or to volunteer information to
authorities or to friends that held
up disciplinary action on the guilty
students.
According to Joe C. Wallace,
commander of the First Division,
the two juniors are not fully to
blame for not turning themselves
in. In relating the story told by
the two students to be suspended,
Wallace said they were asked by
members of the company not to
turn themselves in when the in
cident happened.
Already Packed
One of the boys had reportedly
packed his bags and was ready
to confess to the hazing.
•“I understand the sophomores
in the outfit went to the senior's
and asked if it wouldn’t be possible
for everyone to keep quiet about
the matter so no one could be
punished for the hazing,” said
Wallace.
“The seniors agreed and from
what I understand they left or
ders with the roommate of either
Sears or Vickers to not let him
out if he acted like he might con
fess. ,
“One of the sophomores left
A&M after being forced to drop
military science as disciplinary ac
tion by the college. He was just
about to be drafted when he join-
(See STUDENT, Page 2)
A. W. Williams
Funeral Monday
A Wyatt Williams, 47, graduate
fellow of the economics depart
ment, died Sunday morning after
an illness of several months.
Funeral services were held yes
terday at the Hillier Chapel. Wil
liams will be buried today at
Greenville.
Williams attended East Texas
State Teachers College in Com
merce. He was a railroad postal
clerk. for several years. After re
tiring, he qntered A&M , where he
received his BA degree last June.
KKs Slack
On Huey Hack
Won HBeBack
Bob Huey of San Angelo
gave his greetings of farewell
to everyone when he graduat
ed from hei'c this month. But
to the Campus Security office,
he left a poetic note on his
car.
It said.
Dear KK:
For years now
I’ve worked and waited.
And now,
I’ve finally graduated.
So please,
Don’t put a ticket on this
hack,
I’m leaving today
And I ain’t coming back.
He did not get a ticket.
Commission Exercises
Set for 10 a.m. Friday
Commissioning exercises for the
189 January ROTC graduates will
be held in Guion Hall at 10 o’clock
Friday morning, Jan. 23.
President M. T. Harrington will
be the principal speaker. Col. Shel
ly P. Myers, PMS&T, will pre
sent commissions to the 126 Army
graduates and Col. John Way,
PAS&T, will present commissions
to the 63 Air Force graduates.
All men to be commissioned are
to report to the YMCA at 9 Friday
morning to sign the oath of office,
said Lt. Col. Joi'dan J. Wilderman
of the military department.
Square Dancers
To Promenade
For Polio Drive
Local and out-of-town call
ers are lining up and enthus
iasm is running high for the
night of Saturday, January 24
when the square dancers of
this region will dance in Sbisa
Hall for the benefit of the March
of Dimes.
Sponsored by the Promenaders,
College Station-Bryan square
dance club, the annual benefit for
the polio fund is expected to at
tract hundreds of people, both
dancers and “watchers,” according
to Mrs. Lola Thompson, general
chairman. There will be no admis
sion charge and no charge for
refi'eshments. Everyone attending
will be asked to make a donation to
the March of Dimes.
Sam Kennedy, Lee Thompson,
Manning Smith, O. J. Godbehere,
and Mrs. G. W. Schlesselman head
the list of.local callers announced
by Carl Lyman and Tom Collier.
Bunnan Black, prominent Waco
caller, has promised to be on hand,
and several others from out of
town are expected.
Members of the local club will
act as hosts. Others from the
Promenaders will serve refresh
ments during the evening, with
Mrs. J. C. Goldsmith as chairman.
Diplomas
To Be Mailed
By March 1
Diplomas for the January grad
uates will be mailed to them some
time around March 1, said J. Y.
Alexander, assistant registrar.
If any of the graduates want
to pick up their diplomas early,
they can do so beginning Saturday,
Alexander said.
“The graduates can pick them
up anytime between Jan. 25 and
the time the degrees are ready for
mailing,” he said.
School Bond Election
Before People Today
Construction Ditch Throws
Exam-Weary Prof, Students
Students have been known to get in a rut before final
exams but this year the Aggies have been slipping into a
10 ft. hole.
More than seven students and one College Station resi
dent fell at night last week into a construction ditch in front
of the Journalism Building. The ditch has been dug to lay a
storm sewer.
Mrs. H. S. Creswell, principal of Consolidated Elementary
School, broke her ankle when she fell into the ditch.
Jack Blacksheer, junior from Houston, was talking over
his shoulder to a friend when he plunged into the. ditch.
Bill Foley, also a junior from Houston, mistook the hole
for a mud puddle. Two stitches had to be taken in his chin,
and one in his lip.
Foley and Blacksheer said although parts of the ditch
were lighted by smudgepots there were no warning signs
where they fell.
C. L. Andrews, contractor of Andrews-Parker Inc. who is
doing the construction, said guards and lights were placed
everywhere the ditch was open. He said students had been
moving the guards and extinguishing some of the smudge-
pots.
European Art Show
Set Here Feb. 1-15
Twenty five masterpiece paint
ings valued between $18 and $20
million dollars will be displayed
here Feb. 1-15, said today Mrs.
Ralph B. Terry, advisor and in
structor of the MSC’s Art Gallery
Committee.
“A&M will be the first college
in the world to show the paint
ings,” Mrs. Terry said. “The paint
ings have been shown before in
Houston and at their permanent
housing in a museum at New York
City.”
Students from public schools in
the surrounding area, covering an
85 mile radius, will be invited to
see the exhibits, she said.
“This is the finest collection of
masterpiece paintings out of Eu
rope between the 15th and 20th.
centuries,” the art gallery advis
or said.
The two-week show will include
masterpieces by Pieter De Hooch,
a Dutch artist, 'and Francisco
Goya, a Spanish artist. Each of
their paintings which will be dis
played is worth $300,000—the
most ever paid for a single can
vas, Mrs. Terry said.
The paintings which will be dis
played are:
“Madoma and Child” by Cone-
gliano, “Portrait of a Man” by
Marmion, “La Bella Simorietta”
by Botticelli, “Head of a Boy”
by Salviati, “The Card Players”
by DeHooch, “Portrait of A Man”
by Frans Hals, “Infanta Margue-
rita” by Velasquez, “Promenade
on the Ramparts” by Watteau,
“Theseus Discovering His Father’s
Sword” by Poussin, “Planter’s
Family in Louisiana” by Gerard,
“Madame RaineJ do .Nogart” by
David, fi Siesta” by Czanne, “Tuil-
eries in the Snow” by Pissaro,
“Dordrecht” by Boudin,. “The Es
cape of Rochefort” by Manet.
“Roses in a Vase,” by Renoir,
“Don Antonio Nortego” by Goya,
“The Bath of Venus” by Boucher,
A painting bl Lagrene, “Holy
Family” by Van Dyck, “Mercury
Entrusting Young Bacchus to the
Nymphs” by Boucher, “An Old
Woman” by Vander Nelst, “Sun
set and Ships” by Lorrain, “Ador
ation of the Sheperds” by Tintoret
to, “Heads of Apollo” by Valcs-
quez.
Atomic Commission
Sponsors Scholarships
About 450 Voters'
Will Cast Ballots
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
Fair weather and heated controversy are expected today
to bring out about 450 voters for . the A&M Consolidated
School board bond election.
The election, held in the Consolidated music room from
8 a. m. to 7 p. m., is to authorize the school board of trustees
to issue $650,000 in bonds for new school facilities.
Hershel Burgess is election judge. There are approxi
mately 650 voters in the school district eligible for this elec
tion. About 20 absentee ballots were turned in by yesterday.
“I’m very optimistic about the outcome of the election,”
said Superintendent Les Richardson yesterday. He favors
passage of the bonds.
Over the weekend the school board sent all parents of
Consolidated school children a statement concerning the 50
per cent tax raise the board says it will need to issue the
bonds.
♦- The board said in the statement
that before any raise in taxes was
made, the public would be con
sulted in an open hearing.
The opposition to the bond is
sue sent over the weekend a mem-
eographed sheet pi'esenting their
plan for a $200,000 bond issue
which they believe would alleviate
the over-crowding in the schools.
The sheet was not signed.
“It’s in the bag,” said E. E.
Brown, president of the school
board, about the election. He pre
dicted yesterday that the bond is
sue would carry two to one.
“I don’t believe the opposition
represents too many people,” he
said.
Hearing Set—‘If’
Brown said the hearing on the
tax raise probably would be held
within two weeks if the bond is
sue passes.
“It would take us that long to
organize the material for present
ation,” he said.
Money from the proposed issue
Avould be used to build an element
ary school in College Hills- and a
new high school next to the pre
sent one.
Speakers for the opposition have
advocated only the building of the
elementary school for the present,
with the construction of the high
school waiting until the need is
greater.
They question the ability of Col
lege Station to support a $650,000
bond issue.
Brigham Has
Trouble With
Flying Quiz
If you think you hae having
trouble with quizzes, Gilbert
Brigham can tell a, story to
make you think you are trou
ble-free.
Brigham, a junior from
Denison, was on the third
story of the Academic Build
ing taking a final exam when
a breeze swept through the
room and carried one of the
sheets of paper he had writ
ten on out on the ledge.
Trying to retrieve it, Brig
ham stepped on a crumbling
ledge which broke, and he
plunged three stories head
first to the ground.
The doctor reported no
broken bones—not even a
scratch. He landed in some
trees.
“Incidentally,” Brigham
said, “don’t let anyone tell
you its not a long way to the
' ground.”
A&M seniors majoring in chem
istry, physics or engineering are
eligible for Atomic Energy Com
mission-sponsored graduate fel
lowships in radiological physics
for the 1953-54 school year.
Radiological physics is a new
New President Wants World Unity
‘Win Earth of Peace’—Ike
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-Dwight
D. Eisenhower took office as Pres
ident today and dedicated his ad-
finistration to finding “an earth
of peace” without ever placating an
aggressor by trading America’s
honor for security.
In his prepared inaugural ad
dress, the first Republican chief
executive in 20 years set forth
n i n e “rules of conduct” for
achievement of lasting world
peace, and declared:
“By their observance, an earth
of peace may become not a vision
but a fact.
“This hope—this supreme aspir
ation—must rule the way we live.”
The new President’s address
from the inaugural platform on the
steps of the Capitol, right after
he took the oath of office, was de
voted almost entirely to the inter
national situation—and to a call
for the free nations of the world to
unite against the forces of aggres
sion.
Divine Guidance Asked
Eisenhower asked too for divine
guidance for the new administra
tion.
The inaugural document dealt
only oblisuely with domestic af
fairs. The emphasis on foreign
policy—specifically, on the idea of
world-wide collective security
—pointed, the new administration’s
course in more of an internation
alist direction than heretofore has
had the backing of some GOP con
gressional leaders.
U.S.—World Leader
Eisenhower left no doubt he feels
the U.S. must continue to play a
role of world leadership.
He said, “We are persuaded by
necessity and belief that the
strength of all free peoples lies in
unity, their danger in discord,” and
added:
“To produce this unity, to meet
the challenge of our time, destiny
has laid upon our country the re
sponsibility of the free world’s
leadership.”
Faith in the future which binds
America belongs as well to the
free to all the world, he said.
“It confers a common dignity
upon the French soldier who dies
in Indochina, the British soldier
killed in Malaya, the American
killed in Korea,” he added.
‘World Problem’—Ours
Eisenhower talked of “the pre
occupations absorbing us at home.”
Inaugural Schedule
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—The schedule for inauguration
day follows: time is Eeastern Standard
9 a:m. Electoral College members meet to form per
manent organization.
9:30 a.m. Private services at National Presbyterian
Church for President-elect Eisenhower, new Cabinet and
families. _
11:45 a.m. Ceremonies at Capitol begin, including the
inaugurations of Vice President Nixon and President Eisen
hower, Eisenhower’s Inaugural Address.
1 p.m. Inaugural Parade leaves Capital for White
House.
9 p.m. Inaugural Balls at National Guard Armory
and Georgetown University Auditorium.
He said that while “we are con
cerned with matters that affect our
livlihood today and our vision of
the future, each of these domestic
problems is dwarfed by, and often
even created by, this question that
involves all human kind”—survival
of the free world.
Sciences Final Gift
Appealing for a demonstration of
such faith, Eisenhower had in
mind perhaps America’s develop
ment of such weapons as the hy
drogen bomb in saying:
“Science seems ready to confer
on us, as its final gift, the power
to erase human life from the
eaith.”
Here are the “rules of conduct”
Eisenhower laid down for achieve
ment of enduring world peace‘
“1. Abhorring war as a chosen
way to balk the purposes of those
who threaten us, we hold it to be
the first task of statesmanship to
develop the strength that will de
ter the forces of aggression and
promote the conditions of peace.
“2. Realizing that common sense
and common decency alike dictate
the futility of appeasement, we
shall never try to placate an ag
gressor by the false and wicked
bargain of trading honor for se
curity.
(See IKE, Page 4)
and expanding field of science..
It is concerned with health physics,
radiation monitoring and control,
radioisotope measurements and
similar activities associated with
the use of radiosotopes or the re
lease of nuclear energy.
Up to 75 fellowships may be
awai'ded, with fully-accredited
graduate study to be carried out
in the three locations. One pro
gram is operated by the Univer
sity of Rochester and Brookhaven
National Laboratory, another by
the University of Washington and
the Hanford Works of the AEG,
and the third by Vanderbilt Uni
versity and the Oak Ridge Nation
al Laboratory.
In each Case, nine months of
course work at the university is
followed by three months of addi
tional study and field training at
the cooperating AEG installation.
The program is accredited for
graduate-level training leading to
ward an advanced degree.
Basic stipends for fellows is
$1600 per year, with an allowance
of $350 if married and $350 for
each dependent child. University
tuition and required fees will be
paid by the Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies, Avhich admin
isters the program for the AEG.
Additional information on the
program may be obtained from
science department heads of A&M
or direct from the Institute at
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Wisconsin Union Head
Conducts MSC Survey
Porter Butts, director of the Un
iversity of Wisconsin Student Un
ion, is here today smweying the
Memorial Student Center. He Avill
be here through Wednesday.
Butts Avas a consultant to the
MSC Avhen the first plans of the
Center were drawn.
Two Student Cars
Reported Stolen
Two cars belonging to A&M stu
dents were stolen over the week
end, said Fred Hickman, chief of
campus security.
The cars, OAvned by W. D. Wat
son and William F. Dietrich, were
recovered Saturday, Hickman said.
Watson’s car, stolen in Bryan,
Avas found in the dorm 15 parking
lot only one parking space from
Avhere Dietrich’s car Avas taken.
Watson reported that a flashlight
had been taken from his car.
Dietrich’s car was recovered at
the gate of Bryan Air Force Base.
“Although Ave haA^e no informa
tion as to AA r ho stole the cai's, it
is possible that the same person
was responsible for both thefts,”
Hickman said.
Milk Prices Cut
In Brazos County
Starting yesterday there Avas a
reduction of one cent per quart
ill the cost of milk to consumers
in Brazos county. Cream Avill cost
one cent less per half-pint.
“This is the first time in my
experience I have known the price
of milk to be cut in January,”
said Elton D. Smith, manager of
the Sanitary Dairies plant here.
“Cuts usually come about four
months from now, Avhen the pas
tures are renewed.”
SouthAvest Producers Bureau
has cut the price of milk from the
farmer by 35 cents per 100 pounds.
Polio March Cancelled
The Mothers’ March on Polio,
originally scheduled for Wednes
day morning, has been cancelled,
said Mrs. John Sperry, chairman
for the College Station drive.