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Number 20: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1953
Price Five Cents
May Face Ruin
Activity Fee Loss
Hampers Athletics
(This is the first in a series of
articles on expected results to sev
eral A&M student activities if a
bill in the Texas legislature allow
ing collection of a compulsory ac
tivity fee does not pass.)
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
Students who did not pay ac
tivity fees this semester will not
be allowed to participate in intra
mural athletics, announced Barney
Welch, intramural director.
Games played by students who
have not paid the fees will auto
matically be forfeited, said Welch.
He has asked athletic officers to
check fiscal receipts to see if they
have paid the fee.
“If we don’t get our share of
the activity fee collected from
ail students, we will not be
able to operate an intramural pro
gram at A&M, said Welch.
“More than $6,500 is received
annually for intramural athletics
from student activity fees, paid by
students, consisting of 50 cents
each semester per student,” said
Welch. “Loss of this money or any
part of it would cause us to dis
continue intramurals or completely
alter the program, he added.
A&M’s setup is noted as one of
the finest college intramural pro
grams in the United States. Esti
mates show that approximately
0,800 students participated in in
tramurals last semester. This is
by far the most popular entracur-
ricular activity at A&M, s a i d
Welch. He estimated more than
80 teams participated in the seven
of 20 sports conducted last semes
ter — football, basketball, tennis,
horse shoes, bowling, ping pong,
and swimming.
Almost half of the budgeted
money goes back to the students,
Welch explained. Budgets for this
year shows that $2,800 will go to
students in the way of payment
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CONTINUE RE WEEK PLANNING—CorpsChapIain, O. C. (Put-ter) Jarvis (right) and
Ide Trotter, member of the Interfaith Council, confer with Dr. R. E. Goodrich Jr. of the
First Methodist Church in Dallas on plans for Religious Emphasis Week. Goodrich is
the main speaker for RE week which begins Monday.
Sixth AF Finalist
To Be Picked at Ball
A sixth sweetheart finalist for
the Air Force Ball will be chosen
from the dance floor, said W. D.
(Pete) Hardesty, business manag
er of Student Activities.
She will be selected by two
secret judges. After being picked,
she will compete with the five
original finalists for the bouquet
of roses which designate her as
Air Force Ball sweetheart. Other
finalists will be given presents.
Aggieland Orchestra
With Valentine’s Day as its
theme, the dance will last from
9-12 p. m. Feb. 14. Music will be
provided by the Aggieland Or
chestra. In addition to all AF-
ItOTC cadets, the dance will be
Ipen to! Army ROTC cadets who
may buy a one dollar ticket at the
floor.
All Air Force personnel are in
vited, and cadets who have contri-
Smted to the Air Force Fund will
be admitted with or without dates.
A committee headed by Gene
Steed, 2nd Division commander,
has decided that all pitofits, if any,
fi’om the dance will be given to
the March of Dimes. Steed is also
in charge of all arrangements for
the ball.
Other committee heads include
Mardi Gras Party
Scheduled in MSC
Employees of the MSC will be
entertained at a Mardi Gras Party,
at 8 p. m. Wednesday in the MSC
Assembly Room, said Mrs. Helen
Atterbury, secretary to the MSC
director.
In keeping with the Mardi Gras
theme, the first feature of the
party will be a coronation. The all
male cast will include a court,
king, queen, and duchesses.
Skits will be presented by Aly
Lasheen, MSC library clerk, and
Mrs. Jeannine Green, secretary to
the MSC social director; and Frank
Manitzas, Joel Austin Karri Baker,
and Jerry Bennett of The Battal
ion Staff.
A chorus composed of the MSC
•supervisors will sing at the party,
and a barber shop quartet compos
ed of Sam Stine, Charles (Chuck)
Cargill, Oscar Garcia, and John
Geiger, clerks in the MSC bowling
alley will also do some vocals.
Refreshments will be served
following the program, Mrs. Atter
bury said. “Music will be furnished
for those who wish to dance,” she
added.
Bill Highsmith, Air Force chair
man; Kay Graves, dance chair
man; and Jim Haney, decorations
chairman.
The five finalists chosen for
sweetheart of the ball are Jonetta
Lovett, submitted by Key Kolb,
Chore Swenson, submitted by Rob
in Ransome; Patricia Martin, sub
mitted by Don Garey; Di Ann
Boulevare, submitted by David
Wilkinson; and Suisa Yancy, sub
mitted by Samuel Warren John
son.
Flight Operations Wings
•
Flight Ops
Cadets Get
Wings Soon
All junior and senior flight op
erations cadets and seniors in oth
er options who have applied for
flight school will be authorized
to wear special wings on their uni
forms, said Maj. Maxie B. Seale,
head of A&M’s AFROTC flight
operations group.
Qualified cadets will receive
certificates authorizing wear of
the wings, said Maj. Seale.
The certificates will be awarded
soon at a formal assembly, and a
record of the presentation will be
placed in each student’s 201 file,
he said.
The wings will be worn on the
left side of the shirt, said Maj.
Seale.
Last Town Hall
Set in Guion
Thursday Nile
Dance routines, instrumen
tals, and choral music will
combine in the “Festival of
Song”, Town Hall’s last pre
sentation of the year.
The program will be given at 8
p.m. Thursday in Guion Hall.
Directed by Lara Hoggard, chor
al director for all of Fred War-
ing’s productions,. “Festival of
Song” will present classical, pop
ular, sacred, folk, and novelty
music. Lyrics and music will be
played against a background of
lively dances, colorful costumes,
and subtle lighting.
One highlight of the program
will be a collection of musically
adapted Negro sermons sung by
the chorus with a narrative back
ground. The performance will in
clude 36 musicians which will in
clude the choir, dancers, and or
chestra.
Choral director of Fred War-
ing’s famous choir, The Pennsyl
vanians, Hoggard also creates and
directs all routines seen on War-
ing’s television shows. “Festival
of Song” is Hoggard’s own pro
duction.
In addition to his work with
Waring and the coming Town Hall
show, Hoggard has taught choral
techniques in schools. He has won
several awards for artistry in this
field.
Part of Duncan Hall
Closes to Cut Costs
The east wing of Duncan Din
ing Hall has been closed to cut
expenses, said John G. Peniston,
supervisor of subsistence.
Since noon yesterday, all ca
dets in the new area are eating
in the west wing of the mess hall.
Peniston said the change cut
about 30 people a day from the
pay roll by doing away with a
dish washing crew and a sexwing
crew.
“No student waiters will be
filled,” he said. The drop in enroll
ment was responsible for the
change, according to Peniston.
PE Seniors Teach
At Consolidated
Eleven A&M physical educa
tion majors now are teaching Con
solidated High School’s physical
education classes, said C. W. Lan-
diss, instructor of dii’ecter teach
ing classes.
Those teaching at CHS are Jack
Little, William Blair, Roy Dollai*,
Clarence Adams, Claude Watts,
Alvin Langford, Yale Lary, EaxT
Smith, Don Heft, Robert McLel-
an, and Leroy Miksch. They ai’e
members of the PE 450 class, a
inquired coui’se for physical edu
cation majors.
Student teachers conduct i’eg-
ular physical education woidc in
junior and senior high schools,
teaching both boys and gilds.
Besides conducting regular class
es, Blair and Dollar ai'e in charge
of an inti'amural program held
during noon hour. This program
includes basketball, horseshoes,
shuffleboai'd, softball, and table
tennis.
Regular classes for gilds offer
basketball, rhythms, softball, and
tumbling. In boys’ classes, tumb
ling, basketball, softball, games
and relays, and rhythms are
taught.
Top Business
Men To Talk
On Etiquette
Business etiquette will be dis
cussed at a program at 7:30 to
night in the MSC Ballroom, said
Lamar McNew, MSC Directoi’ate
head.
Purpose of the progi’am is to
give A&M graduates pointers in
getting along in the business
woidd, said Cai’roll Phillips, pie-
gram chairman.
Three speakers from the busi
ness world will give talks of about
fifteen minutes each which will
cover the different phases of bus
iness life.
Joseph B. Collerain, placement
counselor of Humble Oil and Re
fining Co. of Houston, Dr. J. A.
Shanks of the personnel division
of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co.,
Inc. of Wilmington, Del., and Rob
ert Douglas, industrial relations
supervisor for Procter and Gamble
Manufacturing Co. of Dallas will
speak.
CHS Students Plan
Teenage Canteen
Formation of a Teen Town Can
teen will be discussed with Con
solidated High School students in
as assembly Friday, said Mrs. Eu
gene Rush, chairman of the group
proposing the Canteen.
Robert B. Halpin, who has work
ed with teen canteens in other
towns, will speak to the students
about canteens and their opera
tion.
Chaplains
RE Week
to Lead
Groups
Causes Wrecks;
No CS Injuries
Several automobile collisions occurred yesterday in Col
lege Station as .71 inches of rain fell through the afternoon
and night. The most rain, .58 inches, fell from midnight
through this morning.
The CAA Weather Bureau at Easterwood Airport re
ported that the low temperature last night was 44 degrees.
More rain is expected through the day, and the temperature
should remain in the 40 to 50 degrees range, the bureau said.
Winter returned to other parts of Texas last night as
rain and mist caused wrecks responsible for the death of
five persons and injuring eight.
No one was hurt in the minor collisions at College Sta
tion. Two of the accidents occurred during the noon hour
traffic on Sulphur Springs Road.
The Associated Press reported that five persons were
killed and three others were hurt+
near Waco Tuesday when two auto- ® O 1
r oreign student
Wins Top Place
In Talent Show
Lt. Col. Vernon M. Goodhand
will lead forums and discussion
groups for students in Dorms 6 and
8 during RE Week, Feb. 15-20.
The sessions will be held in the
lounge of Dorm 6 with afternoon
sessions immediately after supper.
Chaplain Goodhand, chief of the
Plans Branch Office of the Chief
of Air Force Chaplains, received
his AB degree from Asbury Col
lege, Wilmore, Ky., and his BD
degree from Drew Theological
Seminary, Madison. N. J.
After entering the army as a
chaplain ‘ in 1941, he served with
the 37th Infantry Div. in the Pa
cific Theater during World War
II.
Student Discussion
Maj. Everett M. Robie, assist
ant Fourth Army chaplain, will
lead student discussion sessions
for Dormitories 10 and 12 in the
lounge of Dormitory 10.
A native of Iowa, he was or
dained in the Congregational
Christian Church.
During World War IT, Chaplain
Robie served with the 10th In
fantry Reg. in Etirope. During this
time he was awarded the Silver
Star for gallantry in action and
five battle stars.
Before coming to his present
Fourth Army Headquarters post,
he served four years with occupa
tion forces in Heidelberg, Ger
many.
Youth Work
The Rev. Erwin A. Juraschek of
Austin, a specialist in youth work,
will conduct services in St. Mary’s
Chapel, during RE Week.
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A&M Debaters Tackle
Longhorns In Austin
Two A&M debate teams, final
ists in the Baylor Forensic Tour
nament last weekend, left today
for Austin to compete with the
University of Texas.
The teams are John Samuels
and Ken Scott of the varsity and
Len Crawford dnd H. W. Whitney,
freshmen. Both teams won three
and lost one match in the Baylor
tournament.
Another team of Bert Weller
and Joe Riddle was eliminated af
ter losing three and winning one
debate. One hundred and fifty
teams from Texas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Louisiana, and Kansas
participated.
Ditch Diggers
Cut Goodwin
Phone Lines
Telephone conversations in
Goodwin and Bizzell Halls
were interrupted Monday
when a dragline crew digging
a ditch mistook the phone
cables for tree roots and hack
ed through them.
Walter Sayers, foreman of
the dragline crew from H. J.
H. B. Hogan, Bryan dragline
contractors claimed the blue
prints given him which show
ed underground obstacles in
the area, did not show the
cables.
Since they had been con
stantly striking tree roots
since the ditch had been start
ed, the crew thought the lines
were tree roots, and therefore
cut through them, Sayers said.
Other live wires that lead
to Hart Hall were not shown
on the blueprint and conse
quently, were nearly cut by
tbe workmen, the foreman
said. “We’ve found everything
in this ditch but money,” Say
ers said.
The telephone lines had
been repaired by noon Tues
day.
The A&M debaters will attend
the Southern Tournament and
Conference at Greenville, S. C.,
Mar. 30-Apr. 3.
On their recent trip through the
midwest, the debate teams of Sam-
uels-Scott and Weller-Riddle fin
ished third among 16 teams at the
Ohio State University Tourney at
Columbus, O. The team of Sam
uels and Scott defeated the win
ners of the meet, Wake Forest of
North Carolina.
The group also debated teams
at the University of Chicago,
Northwestern, Kent State, De-
Paul, and Vanderbilt. The teams
were gone for 14 days and return
ed last week.
Dorm 17 Cadets Have
Separate Study Rooms
Dormitory 17 unit commanders
are establishing lounges in the
building’s vacant rooms.
Each class of cadets will have
a separate room in which to study
and hold meetings. The rooms will
be used for recreation during cer
tain hours.
mobiles and a diesel truck collided
on the McGregor-Waco Highway.
A State Highway Diesel truck then
plowed into the wreckage. Offi
cers thought slick pavement was
responsible for the accident.
At Houston, five persons were
injured when a Pioneer Lines bus
collided with an automobile at a
city intesection during light rain.
A mass of moist, warm air mov
ing ahead of the front produced
light drizzle or rain over Eastern
Texas. Behind the front, temper
atures dropped as much as 30
degrees.
The U. S. Weather Bureau warn
ed stockmen in the Texas Panhan
dle and South Plains to protect
stock against freezing rain or
snow and low temperatures of 15
degrees.
Snow was not forecast Except
in the Panhandle, but forecasters
said rain in North Central Texas
would freeze late Tuesday or early
Wednesday. Temperatures as low
as 28 degrees in East and South
Central Texas and 24 degrees in
North Central Texas were • fore
cast.
Temperatures Drop
Temperatures dropped quickly
as the slow-paced cold front moved
across Texas. Abilene’s tempera
ture dropped to 38 degrees after
the front passed there at 11:30 a.m.
At Mineral Wells, ahead of the
cold air mass, the temperature was
69 degrees.
A Weather Bureau forecast of
strong winds to 30 miles an hour
from the north and northwest—
and unofficial Air Force Weather
Service warnings of even higher
winds—brought about evacuation
Monday night of all tactical and
support aircraft, including the na
tion’s headquarters force of B-36
atomic superbombers, from Cars
well Air Force Base at Fort
Worth to other fields.
A standing-room-only aud
ience heard Ernesto Marteli-
no, a pianist from Manila,
Philippine Islands, finish first
in a competition in the MSC
last night to find the most talented
Aggies.
Jim Harrison, junior from San
Antonio, took second place with
his renditions of popular folk
songs.
A trio from Mexico City took
the alternate place, and after the
show was over, played for almost
an hour in the MSC Fountain
Room.
Malcolm Stephan, Jerry Lind
ner, and Severan Schaeffer made
up the trio of two guitars and a
vocalist.
The first and second place win
ners will represent A&M at the
Intercollegiate Talent Show here
on Mar. 20 in Guion Hall.
If complications arise, said Bar
ton Raynaud, chairman of the
MSC music committee which spon-
sofed the program, the trio will be
used in the Intercollegiate Show.
Other acts included two western
combos, two popular singers, two
quartets, a popular song trio, an
accordionist, a classical pianist,
and a semi-classical vocalist.
Lions Club Plans
CHS Magic Show
“Birch the Magician” will be
presented Feb. 25 by the College
Station Lions Club at the A&M
Consolidated High School.
Proceeds from the project will
be used to aid crippled children.
A part of the money will be util
ized locally, and the remainder to
help support a camp for crippled
children at Kerrville.
This camp is sponsored jointly
by the Lions Clubs of Texas.
Two performances will be given.
An afternoon mattinee will be
presented at 3 p. m., followed by
an evening show at 8 p. m.
Admission for adults will be
$1.29, students 69 cents and chil
dren 39 cents.
FOR HEROISM—Col. Shelly P. Myers (right) presents
Maj. Chas. H. Brown the Soldiers Medal for heroism while
serving in Korea.
Maj. Brown
Gets Medal
For Heroism
Maj. Charles H. Brown, Army
ROTC instructor recently assigned
to A&M, was presented the Sold
iers Medal for heroism Friday by
Col. Shelly P. Myers Jr., PMS&T.’
Maj. Brown was cited for hero
ism on August 17, 1952, near
Sachon-Ni, Korea, when he rescued
a soldier from the flood waters of
the Soyang-gang River.
“He courageously plunged into
the treacherous, rock - infested
stream, and struggling against the
flood waters, was able to reach
the semi-conscious man and bring
him back to shore,” Col. Myers
said.
Maj. Brown returned to the
United States from Korea last fall.
He has been assigned duty with
the Basic Section.
Award Deadline
Set for March 1
Mar. 1 is the application dead
line for the $300 Founder’s Fund
Scholarship Award of Phi Eta
Sigma, national freshman honor
society, said Dean John R. Ber
trand, faculty adviser of A&M’s
chapter.
The scholarship will be used for
first year graduate work by Phi
Eta Sigma members. Winners will
be selected from this year’s sen-
iors by a committee appointed by
the society’s national president, he
said.
The following points will be
considered in granting the awards:
high scholastic record, evidence
of creative ability financial need,
promise of success in the appli
cant’s chosen field and personality.
Applications can be obtained at
Bertrand’s office in the Aggieland
Inn.