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• 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.