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Number 17: Volume 53
Skrivanek Will
Head Teachers 1
Committee
Principal J. J. Skrivanek of
A&M Consolidated school was
named to head a committee to
nominate officers for the Bra
zos County Teachers Associa
tion at the group’s meeting Mon
day night.
The committee will report at
the Apr. 7 meeting, when the elec
tion is to be held. New officers
will serve next year.
Other membei’S of the commit
tee are Mrs. Charles Byrd, Sam
Crenshaw, Miss Mattie Peal Hen
ry, and Cecil Nabors.
A discussion of bills now before
the state legislature affecting
salaries was led by W. D. Bunting,
county school superintendent.
A proposed amendment to the
organization’s constitution calling
for yearly dues of two dollai’s
will be voted on at the next meet
ing.
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1953
Price Five Cents
Prayers Will Echo
Over Earth Sunday
A world-wide day of prayer for
: students in all lands will be held
| Sunday, Feb. lii.
A&M students from the Christ-
I ian, Episcopal, Lutheran, Metho
dist, and Presbyterian churches
I and the YMCA, will meet in the
| St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel at
; 6:30 p. m. for their part in the
program. A united choir, directed
by Miss Betty Bolander, will sing
: a new chorus, “Christian Men
& United,” written for this occasion
by Mrs. McNeil Drumwright of
ftryan.
Bernhard Ohse, former president
* »f the Student Christian Move-
; ment in Germany and now a stu
dent at the University of Texas,
1,: will speak about the World Stu-
* dent Christian Federation. The
WSCF has sponsored this day of
prayer for some years so* students
t 1 around the world might be stim
ulated to pray for one another in
0 terms of each nation’s specific
needs and problems.
Teacher Exams Set
At Test Centers
National Teacher Examinations,
prepared and administered annual
ly by the Educational, Testing Ser
vice, will be given at 200 testing
® venters throughout the United
States, Saturday, Feb. 14.
At the one-day testing session
a candidate may take the common
> examinations, which include tests'
in professional information gen
eral culture, English expression,
I and non-verbal reasoning; and one
or two of eight optional examina-
w tions designed to demonstrate
1 mastery of subject matter to be
/ taught.
The college which a candidate
if, is attending, or the school system
in which he is seeking employ-
; ment, will advise him whether he
should take the National Teacher
Examinations and which of the
optional examinations to select.
A&M, previously a testing cen-
» ter, will this year act as a coop-
crating center.
R. Q. Landers Gets
Presbyterian Post
^ Roger Q. Landers has been nam-
> ed president of the Presbyterian
I Student League to hold office un-
v til January, 1954.
Other positions in the league
that have been filled are: vice-
presidents, Martin Burkhead, Jack
Rowe: secretary, Richard Porter;
treasurer, William S. Minor, fel
lowship, Jim Womack, Ann Mor
gan.
Visitation and evangelism; Fair
Colvin, Murray Milford; publicity,
Keith Nickle, Gordon Porter; pub
lications, Barbara Miller, Reta
Stiteler; and members-at-large, Ed
Leeman, Kirk Schwarz, Phil Pear
son, Joe Slack, Ben Pinnell, Mike
Drummond.
RE Week Plans Made
By Inter-Fail h Connell
WARING TALENT—These are the Fred Waring Singers who will appear Thursday,
Feb. 12, in Guion Hall along with Waring and his orchestra. Waring’s Festival of
Song will be the fourth of the Town Hall series.
Publishers to Hold
Conference at MSC
Approximately 150 newspaper
publishers will be shown how to
increase their profits in the Foui’th
Annual Mechanical Conference
Feb. 21 in the MSC.
Sponsored jointly by the jour
nalism department and the Texas
Press Association, the conference
will try to combat rising produc
tion costs and labor problems of
small daily and weekly newspaper
publishers.
To show how production costs
may be cut, panels of experts
will discuss problems indicated by
the publishers when they register.
Some of- these men include F. L.
“Shorty” Gerspach, of the Inter
type Corp., who will discuss prob
lems dealing with slugcasting ma
chines, and Ed Becker of the
Carpenter Paper Co., who will dis
cuss means of lowering paper
costs.
The Bingham Roller Co. will
send Russell Burget to the con
ference and Frank Tucker of the
A&M Press will be on hand to
help solve problems concerning
inks.
What’s Cooking
Noon — Officers Wives Luncheon
Club, The Oaks, Mrs. R. Hender
son Shuffler will give a book re
view.
7:30 p.m.—Knights of Columbus
basement of St. Mary’s Chapel
emergency meeting.
Aggieland Staff, Room 204,
Goodwin Hall, important meeting
of all members, Coffee and cook
ies will be served.
Senate Has First
Meeting Tonight
The Student Senate will meet
tonight at 7,:30 in the Senate
Chamber in the MSC as scheduled,
said Bob Travis, president.
Included in the unofficial agen
da, Travis said, is a vote to send
a representative to a dance at Ar
lington State College this spring.
One of the current headaches in
newspaper business is the fast
turnover of printers and shop
workers. To combat this problem
there will be a panel entitled “How
to Keep Your Printers.”
Included on this panel will be
Joe Cook of the Mission Times,
Lewis Newman of the Norton
Printing Co., and O. W. Dunkle,
who is with the Ochiltree County
Herald at Perryton.
Since the conference deals pri
marily with items of concern to
the print shop, publishers have
been invited to bring their print
ers and advertising men.
Army Gives
Vaccination
Schedules
Army schedules for summer
camp vaccinations were released
yesterday by CWO Charles L.
Brown, Army ROTC adjutant.
Vaccinations will be given on
consecutive Thursdays Feb. 12-
Mar. 5.
Students will report by sections
at the following hours: 1 p. m.—
Signal, Engineers, and Ordnance;
2:30 p. m.—Chemical and Trans
portation; 2:45 p. m.—AA and
ASA; 3 p. m.—Infantry and Quar
termaster; 3:15—FA and Armor.
Cadets who claim prior immuni
zation should report to the Rec
ords Section with their medical
record prior to Feb. 9.
Consolidated Students
Get Free Dental Care
“It’s the care of your teeth
through the years of childhood
that may save you trips to the
dentist later on,” Dr. A. B. Cath-
cart told a group of junior high
students whose teeth he checked
Wednesday afternoon at A&M
Consolidated School.
In recognition of Dental Health
Week, Dr. Cathcart’s visit was the
first of a series of free check-ups
in this year’s health program, lat
er to include each pupil in Consol
idated and Lincoln Schools.
Dr. H. W. Hooper and Dr. Cath-
cart will alternate, as they did
last year, in giving their free
Form Opinions
Honeycutt Advises
Aggies To Think
By ED HOLDER
Battalion Managing Editor
Congratulations are in order for
Colonel Dale Honeycutt of the Air
Science Department.
He has taken it upon himself to
promote '‘higher” education at
A&M and it seems he has run in
to some very discouraging facts.
Col. Honeycutt says he has
found the average Aggie not only
fails to read a magazine once in^
a while, but can very seldom re
late the most important and cur
rent events with even a minimum
of knowledge on the subject.
The enterprising instructor
handles three Air Science sections,
and has been trying, in his own
words, “to do one thing if nothing
else; that is to stimulate thinking
on your own. Read and educate
yourself, because you can’t possi
bly learn too much in the short
time you spend in college.”
He told his classes of a list
published by the Air Force of
“Recommended R e a d i n g,” and
strongly urged his men to obtain
some of this reading matter.
“These books are very educa
tional, and should be read by every
officer and future officer of the
Air Force, he said.
He told his students that they
will make the kind of officer they
want to make, and one of the big
gest factors in the education of
thinking men is reading.
Col. Honeycutt’s students are
graduating seniors this semester,
and he hopes to instill in them
the “desire to learn and make the
Air Force known for its integrity.”
He says it must start with these
men, and spread.
“The AFROTC graduate of to
day has been found to be inferior
to OCS men. One reason could be
that men who come in through
OCS have a self-desire to get
ahead.
‘Never So Good’
“You men graduating today nev
er had it so good,” said Col. Hon
eycutt, “Higher education is now
so easy to obtain that too many
are ignoring it. The Air Force is
offering higher education, to more
and more of its college graduates.
“Now more than ever, I get
lists of college courses in my of
fice which qualify a man to go di
rectly from school into the Air
Force and continue studying.
“Many men who went through
school before you, would have giv
en anything to have the opportun
ities you have now.
“To some graduating seniors,
the Air Force is giving the chance
to continue school, taking graduate
work, and the government is pay
ing them their second lieutenant’s
salary.
“And it’s not just the Air Force.
Big business is offering more and
more of these same opportunities
each day. Some one has the golden
opportunity of a lifetime and won’t
think enough to realize it. Think
men, think.”
time Wednesday afternoons for
dental service. A portable dental
chair has been set up in the office
of W. T. Reidel, principal of the
Junior High School.
Mrs. Ray George, dental chair
man of the Health Group of the
Mothers and Dads Club, has ar
ranged for Various mothers to as
sist the dentists with clerical dut
ies. Mrs. C. A. Bonnen served in
that capacity Wednesday.
Check-up Shows Need
Results of this first check-up re
veal that of the 52 pupils examin
ed, only eight need prompt at
tention to one or more cavities in
their teeth, approximately 12 need
teeth cleaned, and the teeth of 32
of the pupils examined were in
good condition.
“Better do a more regular job
of brushing your teeth,” Dr. Cath-
cart recommended to a number of
the pupils, in emphasizing the im
portance of proper care.
Distribution of Dental He’alth
posters in the school last week by
Dr. Hooper and Dr. Cathcart
stressed the importance of learn
ing methods of * proper care of
teeth.
Johnson Opens
New Body Shop
A body shop on Sulphur Springs
Road at old hiway 6 recently was
opened for business.
Owner of this shop is Walter
Johnson, long known to Aggies
and residents of College Station
as the man who brought them
their special delivery mail.
Hunting down people who re
ceive the special delivery mail has
been Johnson’s job for seven years,
but he will soon resign to devote
fulltime to his shop.
Chemical Society to Hear
Famous Electrochemist
Dr. Malcolm Dole will address
the American Chemical Society on
“The Chemistry of Isotopes of
Oxygen”, at 8:15 p. m. in the
Chemistry Lecture Room Tuesday,
Feb. 10.
An instructor at Northwestern
University, Dr. Dole has done ex
tensive research on the glass elec
trode which has led to a clarifica
tion of the theory of the glass
electrode. He has also published a
book on “Experimental and Theo
retical Electrochemistry.”
Flanagan Will Play
For Military Ball
Ralph Flanagan and his orches
tra will play for the Militai’y Ball,
Mar. 28 in Sbisa Dining Hall.
The orchestra will give a con
cert in Guion Hall before the
dance.
Plans for the dance were begun
yesterday afternoon at a meeting
of dance committee chairmen and
officer sponsors in the office of
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Col. Edward F. Sauer is gen
eral chairman representing the
School of Military Science. Joe
Mattei is head cadet chairman.
Other committees with their of
ficer sponsors and cadet chairmen
are as follows: program commit
tee, Capt. Paul M. Bennett, Allen
Cox, and John Robert Kennedy;
invitation committee, Capt. J. D.
Muehleisen, Joe Wallace and Har-
ofd Hudspeth; guest committee,
Maj. Charles Taylor, Gene Steed
and Bill Highsmith; decoration
committee, Lt. Col. John F. Pax
ton, Jack Matthews, and Charles
Rawlings.
Publicity committee, Maj. Luth
er J. Westbrook, Joel Austin, and
Jerry Bennett; transportation
committee, Lt. A. J. Armstrong,
Solons Query
Deferments Of
College Men
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—
(TP)—John A. Hannah, who
won committee approval to
day to be under secretary of
defense in charge of man
power, told senators the present
policy of draft deferment of col
lege students will be reviewed.
“It worries me,” he said, “that
there is so much validity in the
statement that the son of a well-
to-do family goes to college and
the son of the less well-to-do goes
to Korea.”
Sen. Case R-SD raised the is
sue of draft deferments for college
work while Hannah, now president
of Michigan State College, was
being quizzed by the Senate Arm
ed Services Committee. The com
mittee later voted unanimously for
the educator.
Case wanted to know if Hannah
had heard complaints on the point.
The nominee said he had, and that
the pi’oblem is a major item in the
list of issues being studied as he
takes over the manpower and per
sonnel policy assignment from An
na M. Rosenberg.
Bob McCarley, and Ralph Walling-
foi'd; ticket sales, Lt. Armstrong,
Pete Hardesty, business manager
of Student Activities, Jim Haney,
and Charles Hornstein; finance
committee, Hardesty and Chaides
(Red) Scott; orchesti’a committee,
Capt. Jack M. Hoffman, Hardesty
and Scott; and refreshments com
mittee Capt. Hoffman, Bill Pirtle,
and Jack Thornton.
Profs Become
Spring Students
In New Course
Professors will now have
a chance to keep up with the
latest teaching methods while
they are still holding down
their regular job.
A two hour coui*se for staff
members and graduate students
has been introduced into the cur
riculum for the Spring semester,
and “was organized around proce
dures and techniques of the teach
ing room.”
“The course will meet from 3
till 5 p. m. Wednesday afternoon
in room 102 of Bolton Hall,” said
T. D. Brooks, professor of educa
tion and psychology and dean
emeritus.
Brooks said staff members may
take it as auditors without pay
ment, but must participate in the
activities of the class.
This course was recommended
by The Committee on Develop
ment of Teaching Personnel. This
committee was appointed earlier
in the year by David H. Morgan,
dean of the college, and consists
of college-wide representation of
all the schools.
J. G. McGuire of the engineer
ing drawing department is chair
man of the committee.
Reserve Training
Camps Announced
Advance plans for two-week
field training camps for units of
the Army Reserve in Texas were
announced by Texas Military head
quarters this week.
Major Clyde E. Hesse, Unit In
structor, College Station area, an
nounced that approximately 12
Army Reserve units from this sec
tion of the state will attend sum
mer training during the period
July 26 to Aug. 9. The College
Station area is composed of Braz
os, Burleson, Milam, Montgomery,
Madison, Grimes, Robertson and
Walker counties.
This announcement is being
made at this time in order to af
ford members of the units and
their employers ample time to ar
range vacation schedules for the
summer without creating last min
ute revisions and hardships.
Under present law and Depart
ment of the Army regulations at
tendance at the two-week field
training by all members of re
serve units ordered to camp is
mandatory.
The 75th Infantry Division units
will train at Fort Hood for two
weeks July 26-Aug. 9.
The 420th Engineer Aviation
Brigade will train at Wolters AFB
for two weeks July 26-Aug. 9.
Enlisted members of the Army
Reserve without previous military
training will be sent to Camp
Chaffee, Arkansas, for a two-week
basic training course July 12-26.
Marine Corps
Offers College
Grad Program
Seniors and graduates who
enroll now for the Marine
Corps officer candidate course
will receive the benefit o f
specialized training, Capt.
Thomas J. Stevens, procurement
officer from Houston said today.
Present expansion of the Marine
Corps, highlights the need for
college specialists, said Capt.
Stevens. Officer training programs
include courses in supply, engin
eering, naval ordnance, motor
transport, communications, and
naval flight training.
The courses are open to both
college graduates and seniors who
graduate between now and March
1, 1953. Interested persons may
be married or single and should
contact the Marine Corps Recruit
ing Station in Room 316, Federal
Office Building in Houston, Capt.
Stevens said.
Once selected, an applicant is
enlited in the Marine Corps Re
serve and attends a ten-week
training course at the Marine
Corps School at Quantico, Va.
Upon completion of this course,
the candidate becomes a second
lieutenant and serves two years
on active duty as a commissioned
officer.
By IDE TROTTER ,1
Battalion News Staff
Preliminary plans for Religious
Emphasis Week were completed
in Dallas yesterday when repre
sentatives of the Interfaith Coun
cil met with Dr. R. E. Goodrich,
the main speaker for RE Week.
“I want to do everything I can
to make Religious Emphasis Week
successful,” Dr. Goodi’ich, who is
pastor of the First Methodist
Church in Dallas, emphasized in
the interview. “I think it is a very
fine program.”
In discussing the topics he has
chosen for his RE Week messages,
Dr. Goodrich explained that he had
tried to make as complete use as
possible of the results of the in
terest locator data which was ob
tained from the students earlier
this year.
“Things that people indicate
they do not like shows as much
about them as those things they
do,” he pointed out.
On this basis, Dr. Goodrich said
he had selected “How to Handle
Doubt” as the topic for his first
morning service, Feb. 16.
“Back to What God?” will be
discussed by Dr. Goodrich Tues-"
day. “Revival of interest in the
wrong God is certainly no good he
declared.”
Assuming a positive rather than
the customary negative point of
view Dr. Goodrich’s Wednesday
message will be “Why So Many
Marriages Succeed.”
“The Danger of Tolerance,”
was chosen by Dr. Goodrich as the
topic for Thursday. “This is to be
a discussion “of tolerance with ref
erence not only to evil but to the
whole outlook on life,” he fur
ther explained to the A&M repre
sentatives.
“The source of most of our trou
ble stems from a lack of positive
convictions,” said Dr. Goodrich.
“As a man believeth in his
heart so is he” Dr. Goodrich quot
ed in explaining the importance of
faith in the decisions of a Christ
ian. “This,” he pointed out to the
A&M group, “shows the import
ance of the final message.”
“Your Faith Makes You,” will
be his topic for the final RE Week
service Friday morning.
J. Gordon Gay, YMCA secre
tary, M. L. (Red) Cashion, Inter
faith Council president, O. C. (Put
ter) Jarvis, corps chaplain, made
the trip to Dallas.
Sen. Moore Heads
Insurance Group
State Senator Wm. T. (Bill)
Moore of Bryan has been appoint
ed chairman of the Senate In
surance Committee by Lt. Gov.
Ben Ramsey.
He was appointed to the Public
Buildings and Grounds committee
as vice-chairman.
Other committee appointments
for the local senator representing
District 11 were Civil Jurispru
dence, Criminal Jurisprudence,
Federal Relations, Finance, and
State Penitentiaries.
Film Society Has
Substitute Movie
The A&M Film Society will
feature the movie “The Four
Feathers” tonight at 7:30 in
the Ballroom of the MSC.
Ed Holder, president of the
society, said this films was
substituted at the last minute
for “The Spoilers,” regularly
scheduled movie which was
unavoidably detained.
“The Four Feathers” has an
English setting, with part of
the movie taking place in
Africa, Holder said. It con
cerns a young man and his
fight to prove his courage, he
added.
Korean Vets Must
Submit Certificates
All Korean veterans who have
not submitted certificates of edu
cation to the Veterans Advisor
should do so at once, said Bennie
A. Zinn, assistant dean of men.
Veterans who have not received
these certificates are urged to re
port to 102 Goodwin Hall as soon
as they arrive, he said.
Weather Today
CLOUDY
WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy to
partly cloudy with the maximum
temperature probably in the upper
70’s. The low this morning was
62.