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f Circulated Daily ^ To DO Per Cent Of Local Residents on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 15: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1953 Price Five Cents THE WORLD TODAY Ike Seeks Harmony Of Solons Ry JAMES MARLOW AP News Analyst WASHINGTON — WP) — With ex-President Truman’s sour congressional relations still fresh in mind as he rode up to the Capitol yesterday, President Eisenhower tried a dif ferent approach. P He carried an olive branch with him, wrapped up in his State of the Union message. He made it pretty plain in his 14-page, and very conciliatory, talk that he wants to get along with Congress. 1 Here and there he may have caused some momentary irrita tions. For instance, to Southern Democrats when he said he will try to end racial segregation in the nation’s capital. And those members of Congress who had their heart set on cutting taxes right away must have felt hurt when he warned Congress to go slow on cutting taxes. • But on the whole the message stroked the congressional fur the right way. Whether or not, in the end, his relations with congress turn out to be any better than Truman’s is something the next few years will have to show. | It would have been extraordi nary if, less than two weeks in the job, he could hale unrolled a com plete blueprint of his program. It wasn’t expected of him and he didn’t attempt it. Almost at the start of his mes sage he explained he was too new in the presidency to lay down now, all in one bundle, his administra tion’s plans in detail. I'.i So his message was a mixture # ®f many generalities and some Specific suggestions. Therefore, Ihe rest of his program will have to be revealed piece by piece as .ftvents and months unfold. MSC Sets Deadline For Dance Classes Registration deadline for MSC dancing classes is Feb. 16. The lessons will begin on that date, y.. Fee for the 10 lesson course is $2.50. Classes will be held on Mon day and Tuesday nights. The danc ing lessons will be taught by Manning Smith, nationally known dancing instructor. Contract Check Allowance Not Taxable Says Wilkins Advanced military contract students have been advised not to report the monthly subsistance allowance paid them by the Army or Air Force on Income Tax forms filed for 1952. Assistant Commandant Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins said law does not require income tax to be charged on allowances. “Several students have inquired at the local office of Internal Revenue concerning the matter and the agent in formed them anything received from the government must be reported.” “We are fully assured the allowance of 90 cents a day received by contract students is not taxable and will have a statement to that effect read in all classes of Military and Air Science,” said Col. Wilkins. He hoped to hear from higher authorities of the Internal Revenue this week concerning the matter. Policeman Training School Opens Here Editor Claims Election of Ike May Stimulate Business Boom Twenty-three policemen repre senting 16 Texas towns started training yesterday at the opening of A&M’s Texas Police Training School. Purpose of the school is to train municipal policemen in Texas law and the basic fundamentals of po lice work. A&M’s school is the fifth of its type in the natiop. Others are located at Michigan State, Louis ville, Ky., and Northwestern Uni versity, Chicago. The FBI Acade my in Washington, D.C. also trains municipal policemen. Registration began Sunday aft ernoon with only one man of the scheduled group failing to enroll. A tour was made Monday morn ing through Cushing Memorial Li brary to teach the policemen li brary policy. Following the tour, members heard a speech by E. L. Williams, vice director of the En gineering Extension Service, which started the school here. H. A. Thomason, Bryan City Manager; C. C. Benson, manager of the National Automobile Theft Bureau, and Burl Avera, also of that organization, made speeches to the law officers. After all speeches were completed, regular school work began. Classes In YMCA Classes are held in the YMCA from 8:30 until 11:30 a.m. After an hour and a half break for lunch, classes are resumed from 1 until 4 p.m. Courses in physical educa tion are scheduled from 4 until 5 p.m. Classes are held Monday through Friday. Each policeman must maintain Five Finalists Picked l or Junior Sweetheart Five finalists for sweetheart of the Junior Class were announced by class officers this week. Vieing for the title will be the following Miss Hinda Groner, student at Texas University, entered by Jim my Tyree. Miss Jane Jersig of San Antonio, submitted in the con test by Burt C. Holdsworth. Miss Fay Anderson, a Houston co-ed who attends Baylor University, entered by John Wm. Neale. Miss Jackie Tuttle, student at South west Texas State Teachers College, sponsored in the contest by Allen Davis. Miss Nell Peel of Lubbock, U whose picture was entered by Don jLowry. Tickets for the Junior Prom and Banquet scheduled Feb. 28 are on f;, sale in dormitories by first ser- '! eeants and at the Office of Stu dent Activities. Banquet tickets cost $1.50 each. Dance tickets are on sale at two dollars. Banquet tickets go off sale Feb. 23. The banquet is scheduled for Weather Today CLEAR WEATHER TODAY: Clear. The expected high is 75. The low this jnorning was 48, Sbisa Dining Hall at 6:30 p.m. with the dance to, follow at 9 p.m. The Aggieland Orchestra will provide the music. Chairman for the banquet and dance are, as follows: Carroll Phil lips, banquet chairman; Clancey Woliver, dance chairman; Bill Reed, sweetheart chairman; Roland Bahlman, program chairman; Bill Young, guest chah'man; and Pate Wright, ticket chairman. an average of 70 or above to stay in the school. Instructors include Wallace D. Beasley, head of the school, A&M employees, Bryan and College Sta tion officials, and out-of-town law officers and legal officials. Members of the training school are being housed in the basement of Leggett Hall. Sbisa Dining Hall is supplying food for the po licemen during their training pe riod. Four Week Periods The Texas Police Training School is divided into four week training periods. Maximum en rollment for each unit is 24 men. The present group will complete the school March 27. The second group will start work March 30. Advanced arrangements must be made to enroll in the school. Ap plications are processed on a first come, first served basis. The course is open to officers employed in municipal police depaz’tments, and no entrance examinations or other special entrance require ments are necessary. The individual police depart ments pick men from their forces to attend the school. These men are trained in turn to teach other members of their departments the information learned at A&M. Civilian Mess Hall To Be Continned The non-military mess hall will be continued for at least one more month and probably for the rest of the semester, John G. Peniston, - supervisor of subsistance, Sbisa Hall revealed yesterday. He said that a total of 241 meal tickets had been sold up'to noon Monday and that as long as the total stayed above 200 the dining hall program would be con tinued. Athletic Ducats Needed for Games Athletic cards for the spring se mester should be picked up in the Athletic Office, said Pat Dial, bus iness manager. Students will not be admitted to any athletic contest unless they have their cards. CHAIRMAN—Rep. H. A. Hull of Fort Worth is chairman of the House sub-committee which heard explanations on appropriations of .state funds for A&M asked by col lege officials. A&M Asks 16 Per Cent Money Raise A 16 per cent increase over the current operating budget of A&M College was explained yesterday before a House sub-committee to study appropriations for state col leges and universities. Headed by Rep. H. A. Hull of Fort Worth, the sub-committee be gan the four day hearing sche duled for the A&M System Mon day. Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of the A&M System, and Dr. M. T. Har rington, president of the college, appeared before the group yester day afternoon. Harrington said the incz-ease was asked to cover salary in creases and increased costs of op erations. Neither Harrington nor Gil christ could give a definite; report on the outcome of Monday’s hear ing. They explained no comment is made by the committeemen who are merely seeking to find out why and what for the money is needed. Arlington State College was al so included on the Monday sche dule. Due for discussion today are Prairie View A&M College and Tarleton State College. Wednesday the subcommittee will hear from the Texas Forest Service, Engineering Experiment Station, and Engineering Exten sion* Service. Scheduled Thursday are the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station and the Texas Agricultur al Extension Service. ‘Chemical Industry Must and Will Grow’’ The rapid growth of agriculture in the Southwest has greatly increased the demand for chemical products such as fertilizers and insecticides, said C. A. 'Hochwalt, vice presi dent of the Monsanto Chemical Company, this morning in the first session of the Executive Development Course in the MSC Ballroom. Speaking to 350 attending executives and students, Hochwalt pointed out the intense demand for chemical products as the South west grows in population and industry. “In 1965 there wall be five mouths to feed in the United States where there are four today. This means that the land must in crease its yields, and one of the most important means of doing this is thi'ough the use of chemical products,” said Hochwalt. “As the Southwest grows and ex pands, the chemical industry must and will grow to meet the demand,” he said. Hochwalt is one of the recog nized national industrial leaders who are pi’esenting lectures de signed to give the jupior execu tives general background on the national business situation. Included in these leaders are representatives of the oil, chemi cal, transportation, and utility in dustries of the southwest. These junior executives, repre- sentating a cross-section of the southwest’s leading industries, are beginning a short course of in tensive lectures and discussions on industrial and leadership problems. Chosen for Records Selected on the basis of their industrial records, each of the men was nominated by his company and is considered outstanding in his field. A college committee headed by Dr. F. C. Bolton, presi dent emeritus of A&M, made final selections. Dr. Bolton said the course is designed to prepare the most pro mising junior executives of region al industries for advancement, by giving them a clearer understand ing of their industi*y as a whole, and of its position in relation to the southwestern and national in dustrial scene. The couise, which runs Feb. 1- 21, is divided into two days of gen eral background information with the rest of the time devoted to seminars on different phases of management. Included in these phases are ad ministrative practices, costs and financial administration, market ing management, and employee se lection and development. Discussions Lead Sessions Each session will open with a discussion by a recognized national authority in the field who is now successfully engaged in the prac tice of his specialty. Speakers who are furnishing background information besides Hochwalt include Elliott V. Bell, (See EXECUTIVES, Page 4) Could Save Half Million Dollars? TSCW-NTSC Merger Talked By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor Aggies may have to look around next year for another school front which to select their sweetheart. The fate of A&M’s “sister school” rests with the 53rd Texas legisla ture. Even the 50 years it has been a highly recognized all-girl institu tion, and the only of its kind in Texas, TSCW may soon become a part of North Texas State College, its neighbor on an opposite hill in the city of Denton. A young congressman has intro duced a bill in the House of Rep resentatives which would combine the two institutions of higher learning into one — North Texas University. Tessies Opposed The gals at Texas State College for Women don’t favor the idea because of a certain dislike for the North Texas school. They also hate to see their institution wiped off the roles of state suppoi'ted colleges and universities in Texas. They believe Texas State College for Women can weather this storm of declining enrollment and prove its worth to the people of Texas. But before the tears of sadness start rolling down our cheeks and we sing “Auld Lang Syne” to TSCW, it is well to remember that this isn’t the first time such a bill has been presented in our state legislature. Proponent of the measure to merge both schools is Rep. Bert Hall of Rio Vista, a 26 year old congressman who was elected to the House for the first time in 1951 while still a student. In an interview on the House floor recently, he claimed the mer ger of NTSC and TSCW would mean an annual saving of $500,000 to Texan’s coffers—a figure not to be sneezed at by any means. Complement Endeavors He claims that students attend a given college because it is good in a particular field of education— citing speech, physical education, and home economics as examples of TSCW. At North Texas, edu cation along these lines is very weak, while school far o u t - shines TSCW in music and busi ness administration. Why not avoid this duplication of efforts and create a school high in all fields of education it offers, asks Hall. The congressman claimed only 10 to 15 per cent of the girls en rolled at TSCW go there because it is a girl’s school. He expects that many Tessies to drop out if the colleges are joined. Hall predicts the remaining students at TSCW would not hesitate to become a part of the proposed North Texas University. Ex-Student Pressure The crusading congressman said TSCW people had warned that 50,000 ex-students would bring pressure on him and his bill. He claimed no discouragement from this fact because he believed it to be something that would benefit seven million citizens. Hall commented on the way North Texas administrators had cooperated whole-heartedly in the plan while TSCW officials were opposing it bitterly. He denied that the gild’s school had much to lose and North Texas much to gain by the merge. They will each have to give up several things and in return will gain much more for doing so, he said. The Rio Vista congressman made no claims as a school administrator and said many of the problems of organization would have to be set tled by members of the North Texas University Board of Re gents. Distance Problem When asked how the distance be tween schools could be compen sated for, Hall said that also is a problem for the boai’d of regents to solve. He suggested, however, that maybe freshmen could be housed at TSCW and upperclass men on the present North Texas campus. Referring to the distance be tween campuses (he claims it is exactly 1.6 miles), Hall said the two schools would touch if their golf courses were only turned end to end. The congressman said the out look on passage of his bill is very favorable and warned he could push it through the House in no time if TSCW officials say unkind things about him or try to bring on political pressure. BULLETIN Shivers Appoints A&M Directors Gov. Allan Shivers today an nounced the appointments of three members to the A&M Sys tem Board of Directors. Named to the board were W. T. (Doc) Doherty of Houston, a businessman; Harold Dunn of Amarillo, oilman and vice-presi dent of the Former Students As sociation; and Jack Finney of Greenville, a businessman. All three are former students of A&M. Directors whose terms expired are Rufus Peeples of Tehuacana, C. C. Krueger of San Antonio, and Tyree L. Bell of Dallas. Ag Singers Cancel Tour For Weekend The Singing Cadets have can celed four shows formerly sche duled for Feb. 5-8. Bill Turner, director of the Ca dets, underwent emergency sur gery Jan. 23, and has not fully recovered. Spike White, manager of Student Activities, said they were unable to obtain a substitute conductor. White said the group of singers was to appear in Alice, Laredo, Angleton, and Houston. The Alice and Laredo appearances have def initely been postponed until next year, and the Angleton show pos sibly could be re-scheduled. The Houston show will be sche duled for sometime dui’ing March, White said. Cancellation of these shows does not mean that the second tour, set for Mar. 12-15, will be affected. White said the Singing Cadets will appear in Brownwood, Amarillo, Sherman, and Dallas during their March tour as scheduled. ‘No Business Boom Can Last Forever 9 The editor and publisher of Business Week claims new life may have been given to the current business boom because confi dence was stimulated through the election of Eisenhower. Speaking at the opening session of a three week Executive Development course for young executives, Elliott V. Bell said “there is no record in history of any boom lasting forever; the present boom is already the longest and biggest in history; it is beginning to show its age.” . Bell declared however, “There is nothing in the situation to in dicate the likelihood of an immed iate economic recession. “The leaders of business, labor and agriculture age, I think, are unanimous in the belief that we must not and will not allow pro longed mass unemployment to de velop and persist as it did in the thirties.” Quotes Eisenhower The speaker quoted President Eisenhower as pledging himself that “never again shall we allow a depression in the United States.” In addition to his position with “Business Week,” Bell is also chairman of the Executive com mittee of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company and consultant to the in coming administration. He told the young executives he was hopeful that one of the first moves of President Eisen hower will be to call in a group of top notch economists, financiers and industrialists, with maybe a first class politician too—because it is a problem in political econo my—and set them to work devis ing a program to combat a major depression when the threat arises. Confidence In Youngsters Many older management men have high hopes for the young sters they have trained, Bell said. “By and large there is faith the younger management men hitherto untried by hard times will come through in the pinch. “At this moment it is probably only the hydrogen bomb, that keeps Soviet Russia at bay,” Bell said. “There is no easy answer to the Communist threat to peace,” Bell commented. “We have just got to live with that problem for many years to come.” The speaker said that “we shall always have plenty of problems but as long as American industry continues to do the job” that they have in the past and the present, “we shall never have cause for despair.” The Executive Development Course lasts through Feb. 21, with young executives from many in dustries taking courses under the guidance of top businessmen and executives. Famous Artist Plans Classes Here Feb. 16-28 Xavier Gonzales, a well-known Spanish-American artist, will con duct art classes in tne MSC Feb. 16-28 said Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry, Art Gallery Committee ad visor. Sponsored by the MSC Art Gal lery Committee, the classes will be held by Gonzales from 9-12 a. m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He will criticize his students’ work on Saturdays. The two week’s course will cost $80 for 10 lessons for painters and $40 for non-painters who will be allowed to sit in on the lectures. Gonzales stresses that non painters will not be permitted to Picture Schedule Set for Juniors Juniors are scheduled to start having their pictures made for the Aggieland ’53 Feb. 5 at the Aggie land Studios at North Gate, said Guy Delaney and Harvey Miller, co-editors of the year book. Green ties and blouses should be worn for the pictures. It will cost $2 per person to have a pic ture made. Juniors whose surnames begin with A-B should have their pic tures taken Feb. 5-7; C-F, Feb. 9-10; G-K, Feb. 11-12; L-P, Feb. 13-16; Q-S, Feb. 17-18; T-Z, Feb. 19-20. Makeup pictures will be taken Feb. 21-24, the Co-Editors said. ask questions or disrupt classes in any way. He lets them sit in on the classes solely for the purpose of art appreciation, Mrs. Terry said. Lectures for the course will be in the form of black and white “chalk talks.” Gonzales will use charcoal, pastel or casein material to illustrate his tglks, said Mrs. Terry. Demonstrations will be made of still life painting, landscapes, and from models. Gonzales will explain the technique involved in relation to each subject. In order to be sure of getting a place in the class, Mrs. Terry said interested persons should sign up immediately at the Art Studio on the third floor of the MSC. Ags Place Third In Dairy Judging FORT WORTH, Feb. 2—(A*)—A Texas Technological College team won first place in dairy cattle judging for senior agriculture col leges and Cameron State Agricul ture College, Lawton, Okla., took first in the junior livestock judging contest, both held today at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. Other top senior teams were Mississippi State College, second, 1,801; Texas A&M College, third.