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I r Circulated Daily -J To 90 Per Cent 1 Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 19: Volume 53 ( “ ~ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1953 " Price Five Cents • CAUGHT IN CROSSWALK—This picture of a little boy caught in the parade of A&M cadets at the Dallas Corps Trip was awarded first place in the features class for cities over 50,000 population in the annual photo contest of the Texas Associated Press Managing Ed itors Association. Commander of A Ordnance, Arno Becker, is guiding the lad back to his mother. The picture was made by Norm Bergsma of The Dallas Morning News. RVs Will March During Mardi Gras Marching down Canal St., the worlds widest and most brilliantly lighted thoroughfare, 108 Ross Volunteers will participate in the Rex Parade Feb. 17 on Mardi Gras day. Joe C. Wallace, R. V. command er, said the parade last year last ed from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m., with •only short periods of rest. The unit will leave Saturday. The average Mardi Gras parade costs from $20,000 to $30,000. '• During the parade the R. V.’s will add to the entertainment of more than a half million peo ple who come to see and partici- cate in the “Greatest free show on earth.” All Expenses All expenses of the festivities are paid by carnival organizations. No public subscriptions are asked, io benefit performances are giv- The R. V.’s have an invitation to the Rex Ball the night of Feb. 17. Over each ball reigns a king, queen, and their courts. As every other member of the organization giving the ball, the king and his dukes are masked. Their idenitiy is never officially revealed. The New Orleans A&M Club is of great help every year in making is possible for the R. V.’s to come to the Mardi Gras, Wallace said. Monday night the club will give the R. V.’s a dinner at Amauad’s restaurant and will also contri bute toward the housing and feed ing of the A&M cadets at Camp Johnson. Accompanying the R. V.’s will be Major H. O. Johnson, who will take cai'e of the parade details and Maj. Charles C. Waddell, who will be in charge, of bilifting. Student Senator Filing Ends Feb. 12 Filings to replace senators in the Student Senate will be receiv ed in the Office of Student Activ ities until 5 p. m., Feb. 12, W. D. “Pete” Hardesty, business manag er of Student Activities, said to day. Vacancies exist for a senator from the junior class, Bizzell Hall, Law Hall, and Mitchell. To qualify for filing, a student must be at least a classified sopho more, have a grade point ratio of not less than 1.0, must have attend ed A&M two previous regular se mester’s, and must live in the dorm or area he represents. Hardesty said the election will be Friday, Feb. 13, at which time ballot boxes will be placed in the MSC from 8-5 p. m. for junior class voters. Ballot boxes will be in Bizzel, Law, and Mitchell from 8-5 p. m. ^for voters in those dorms. A&M Step resen led At TISA Meeting #n, and no tickets ‘‘or advertising lire sold. The Mardi Gras season, which always ends the day before Ash Wednesday, features good will to ward everyone. Camp Leroy John son, on the outskirts of New Or leans, has offered to furnish hous ing for the R. V.’s for 25 cents a cadet per night. Breakfast will be served there for 30 cents and din ner and supper for 45 cents each. Mardi Gras day serves as the climax to a number of fabulous carnival balls, each of which is a tableau relating some event in history or mythology. Carnival balls are given by private organ izations and admittance to them is by invitation only. Aggie Talent Show Set for Tonight The Aggie Talent Show will be tonight at 8 in the MSC Assembly Room featuring fourteen acts ranging from classic piano to hill billy combo. Judges will be Ray George, A&M football coach; Bob Boone, choral director Horn CHS; and Carl Best, choral director from Stephen F. Austin. Weather Today WIND and RAIN • WEATHER TODAY: Occasional light rain showers with the possi bility of severe thundershowers and strong winds when a front will pass the College Station area about 6 P-m- . _ Four delegates from the Stu dent Senate represented A&M at the second Texas Intercollegiate Students Association (TISA) ex ecutive committee meeting at the University of Texas in Austin Feb. 7, said Bob Travis, Student Sen ate president. Travis, Don Young, TISA parlia mentarian, Frank Ford, and Gene Steed attended the all-day meet ing held in the Texas Student Un ion Building. Heard Reports Pui’pose of the meeting was to hear committee reports on the special projects of each district of TISA this year and to make final plans for the annual State Convention to be held at Rice In stitute Mar. 19-22, Travis said. The agenda also included discus sion on' the report submitted by the TISA cultural and entertain ment' committee. This committee has been work ing on a project of block bookings of entertainers throughout the col leges and universities of Texas, in order to secure a reduced price from the booking agencies. Wiggins Was Chairman Ken Wiggins of A&M was chair man of this committee last year and because of his and others’ work this project may soon become a reality. Smaller schools will have gained most from the system the commit tee has suggested, for they can not afford to pay as much for a name band as can larger schools like A&M and UT. If the program is taken seri ously by all TISA member schools, A&M students will gain by having better Town Hall programs, noted speakers, and more name bands at a reduced price, Travis said. Final arrangements for such a system will be worked out at the state convention, said Travis. Twenty-eight schools were rep resented last Saturday at the meeting in Austin. Baylor University has called a district meeting in Waco Feb. 21. This meeting will be attended by the TISA committee from A&M so a District project can be selected and put into operation. A&M will be represented by 10 delegates to the State Conven tion in March, Travis added. Chest Drive Reaches Goal The College Station Com munity Chest has made its $11,019 goal, according to Bennie Zinn, .chairman. The addition of money left over from last year brought the drive up to its goal, with $27.40 left over. “We’re still expecting a little more money to come in all through the year,” Zinn said. The left over money is used in the local charity fund. Checks were sent out' Monday to all the organizations benefiting from the Chest. These organiza tions and the amount they received ai’e as follows: Brazos County Tuberculosis Association $1,000 Girl Scouts 2,000 Bryan YMCA 400 Salvation Army 500 College Station Youth Committee 800 Boy Scouts 2,294 Recreation Council 1,000 Needy Childrens Fund 700 Brazos County Hospital Fund 500 American Cancer Society 300 College Station YMCA 400 Local Chest Charity Fund.... 1,000 Miscellaneous Expenses 125 Five A&M Student Activities Face iiuin Without State Bill Directorate Openings Filled By MSC Group The MSC Council approved nominations for vacancies in the Center organization at a meeting last night in the Sen ate Chamber. Jim Baggaley was named chair man of the public relations com mittee, replacing Chuck Neighbors who was made vice-chairman in charge of newspaper publicity. Don Friend was assigned vice-chairman in charge of radio publicity. Allen Brown was approved as pi'esident of the camera club. Joe Williams was accepted as chair man of the crafts committee, and Oscar Garcia was selected to head the dance committee. The council officially received several gifts recently given the MSC. These included a creamer for coffee service presented by the A&M Mothers Club of Stephen- ville; stationary for students to use when writing letters in the MSC, given by the Federated A&M Mothei’s Clubs; and an electric au tomatic pointer to be used with movies, given by the Photo and Visual Aids Department of A&M. The annual MSC awards ban quet was set for Mar. 31. Council- men decided election of new MSC officers would be held Mar. 30. J. Wayne Stark, secretary to the council and director of the MSC, gave a brief financial state ment of the MSC for January op erations. Cotton Ball Scheduled For April 24 The 19th Annual Cotton Pageant and Ball will be held Apr. 24, the Agronomy Society revealed today. Originated in 1932 by Professor Joe Mogford of the agronomy de partment, it is one of the lax’gest social activities of the year. Plans for the 1953 fete are now being made by the Agronomy Society, annual sponsors of the Pageant and Ball. Committees and faculty advisors appointed are as follows: Entertainment committee, head ed by Pat Hitt, assisted by Kert Goode, Harold Scaief, Jack Mur phy, and George Ross, with Prof. C. E. Watson as advisor. Selection committee, with Har old Scaief, Will Polzer, and Roddy Peeples, and chairman Leo Buck- holt. Dr. J. E. Adams is faculty advisor. Chairman Leo Kahanek, Leon- ai’d Thornton, Ernie Enloe, and Murray Milford compose the pro gram committee, with Dr. R. C. Potts as advisor. Arrangements committee with Fritz Welsch, chairman, and Leo Kahanek, Ernie Enloe, and Mur ray Milford, assistants. Advisor, Dr. H. D. Foth. Construction committee, headed by Leonard Thornton, with Bob Shepard, Leonard Stasney, and Bob Johnson, and faculty advisor, Prof. T. E. McAfee. Storm Sewer Line Nears Completion Work on the storm sewer which extends from the new gym to Hart Hall is nearing completion, said Walter Sayers, superintendent of the job. The sewer is to pi’bvide a drain age system for the vicinity of the new gym and Hart Hall. When ever there ia a heavy rain, the water wouldn’t drain off, so a storm sewer was needed, said Sayers. This job is one of a series of storm sewer repairs on the cam pus which was started last Sep tember. This work is being done by the Andrews-Parker Contrac tors of Bryan at a cost of $25,000. Completion of this job will open all roads on the campus which have been closed at various times since September. Repairs will be made on the streets that have been broken up to lay the sewers, as soon as the dirt has settled, Sayers said. By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor Several extra-curricular activities offered A&,M students may be discontinued or dras tically curtailed if a bill before the state leg islature fails to gain approval. The bill would allow state colleges and universities to collect a maximum compul sory student activity fee of $15 each semes ter. A similar bill passed five years ago expired in October. Students who registered this semester were allowed an option of paying the fee. Approximately 12 per cent did not pay or ask for a refund before the deadline Satur day, Feb. 7. Already suffering from non-payment of these student activity fees are the athletic department, student publications, MSC, in tramural athletics, and the college swimming pool. These activities are supported by the fee and their income, if any, and will be in fin ancial trouble unless payment of activity fees is required. If the bill does not pass, intramural ath letics may be eliminated; yearbook prices may be boosted several dollars; and The Bat talion (now daily) may be forced to cut publication to bi-weekly next year. These are only a few of the results expected. Introduced in the upper house by Sen. Searcy Bracewell of Houston and in the lower house by Rep. Charles Hancock of Nacogdoches, the bill is up for Senate hearing Feb. 23. There is an indication opposition to the measure may be presented at the hearing. Similar legislative action was proposed just before the Senate adjourned last year, but was block ed by filibuster by Sen. Jimmy Phillips of Angleton. Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of the college, will appear before the Senate committee at the hear ing Feb. 23 along with represen tatives from other colleges and universities in Texas. Immediate Enactment The President indicated opti mism about the bill’s future in the legislature. It contains an emer gency clause which calls for im mediate enactment after receiving Gov. Shivers’ signature. Dr. Harrington said that should the bill pass, he can see no reason why the fee could not be collected from students who refused to pay or who received a refund. He sug gested that a proportionate amount be computed and collected by the Fiscal Office for the length of the semester remaining after the measure is passed. c “We feel justified in asking leg islative approval of this fee,” said Dr. Harrington. “Our college would be criticized if it did not offer these extra-curricular activi ties. At the same time, people of the state would be critical if state funds were used to finance them,” he added. No Fee, No Yearbook A check is now being conduct ed of all students to determine who has paid the activity fee. Stu dents who did not pay will not be given a yearbook and can get no refund on the portion of first semester fees paid for it, said Ro- (See, RESTRICT, Page 4) World Prayer Day German Student Speaks Sunday Benhard Ohse, former president of the student Clnnstian Move ment in Gei’many and now a stu dent at the University of Texas, will be the principle speaker for the “world-wide day of pi’ayer” Sunday, Feb. 15, at (5:30 p. m. in the St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel. The world-wide day of prayer has been sponsored for years by the World Student Christian Fed eration so that students around the world might be stimulated to pray for one another in terms of each nation’s specific needs and problems. Several Churches to Join A&M students from the Christ ian, Episcopal, Lutheran, Metho dist, and Presbyterian churches and the YMCA, will participate in the event. Oshe was born in the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg, Germany which is now in Russian sector pf Europe. Ohse received his high school training in one of the best of all German boarding schools in Templin, Brandenburg. Upon completion of high school, Ohse joined the German Army. He was captured by the Russians while defending the Eastern front in Poland, and was a prisoner of war for three years and three months. He was put to work at hard labor in a concentration camp in Lithuania, and was later remov ed to White Russia. After being released from pri son camp, Ohse returned to Ros tock and entered the University of Rostock. In 1949-50, he was elect ed to the Student Parliament of the University, which at that time was composed of 24 members. Anti-Communist Only six of these members were anti-communist and two were in different. While. on the Parlia ment, Ohse made a stand against communist doctrines, and advocat ed Christian principles. Because of the work he was doing, Ohse was forced to leave (See GERMAN, Page 4) Bernhard Ohse Takes Group In Dorm 16 Eisenberg Slated To Lead RE Talks For Third Time By IDE TROTTER Battalion News Staff Rev. Larry Eisenberg will be leading discussion groups during RE Week, Feb. 15-20, for his third consecutive year. A specialist in recreation for the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church, Eisenberg will lead discussion groups in the lounge of Dorm 16. In addition to leading dormi tory discussions last year he also conducted the singing for the morning services held in Guion Hall. A native of Tennessee, Eisen berg did his college work at Tennessee Wes leyan C o 1 le g e and the Univer sity of Chatta nooga. He is a graduate of Garrett Bib lical Institute in Evanston, 111., and has attend ed both Boston U niversity School of Theol- ogy and Yale Eisenberg University D i- vinity School. A specialist in the field of lead ership training and recreation Ei senberg has taken a very active part in recent Methodist youth conferences across the nation. He and his wife have published three collections of recreational material and are now completing a fourth, “The Pleasure Chest,” a book on general recreation. The Rev. Hayden Edwards, pas tor of the Polytechnic Methodist Church of Fort Worth, will live in Hart Hall during RE Week and will lead forum and discussion groups there. He has been a Methodist minis ter since his graduation from John Tarleton Agri cultural College in 1927. He re ceived his BS degree from Texas Wesleyan, College in 1943 and has studied in the Perkins School of Theol- o g y, Southem Methodist Uni versity. Since his first pastorate in Edwards Huckabee, Rev. Edwards has serv ed in Covington, Malone, Clifton, and for the last 13 years in Fort Worth. Seven of those years were with St. Mark’s Methodist Church before moving to his present posi tion. An experienced RE Week work er, Rev. Edwards will be making his second' such appearance here in addition to similar work at Weatherford College and Texas Wesleyan College. Polinard of Waxahachie Another returnee from last year’s RE Week is the Rev. Her bert L. Polinard, pastor of the Main Street Christian Church, Waxahachie. Rev. Polinard will live in Leg gett Hall and lead forums and discussion sessions for students living in both Leggett and Milner Halls announced J. Gordon Gay, Y r MCA secretary. A native' of Arcadia, Texas, he received his BA degree from Sam Houston State College and did his graduate work in divinity at the Brite College of Bible of Texas Christian University. Rev. Polinard is not new to A&M since he was inducted into the Enlisted Reserve Corps here in November, 1942. He served in France and Germany during the war as medical laboratory techni cian. During the occupation he did double duty as a substitute for Chaplains on furlough. Prior to becoming minister of the Main Street Christian Church of Waxahachie he served the Broadmoor Christian Church of Houston. Spain In Dorm 14 Forum groups in Dorm 14 will be lead by Carl Spain, pastor of the Central Church of Christ in Houston. The discussions in the lounge of dorm 14 will be for the students in dorm 14 and those living on the first two floor’s of dorm 17. Spain, a native of Tennessee, received his BA degree from Abi lene Christian College in 1938. Both his MA and BD degrees were earned at Southern Methodist Un iversity. An experienced student worker, he has served as professor of Bible at Harding College, Searcy, Ark., and as director of the Bible Chair and student center for Churches of Christ at Texas Tech in Lub bock.