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Number 23: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggleland), TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1953
Price Five Cents
RVs in Parade
At Mardi Gras
By JOE MATTEI
Battalion Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 17—
A&M’s white-uniformed Ross Vol
unteers gain this- city’s Mardi Gras
spotlight today as they lead the
famed Rex Parade, gayest and
largest of pre-lenten festivities.
Ruled by King Rex, the last of
ten monarehs to reign during the
festive season, the parade began
this morning and will continue long
into the afternoon.
The Ross Volunteers were met
this mornnig by a masked rider on
a white horse who led them to their
place immediately behind the Rex
Captain.
The A&M honor drill unit is tak
ing part in the Mardi Gras parade
for the second consecutive year.
Feted At Luncheon
Members of the New Orleans
A&M Club feted the visiting Ag
gies at a luncheon Monday at Ar-
naud’s Restaurant. RV Command
er Joe Wallace of San Antonio was
given a key to the city and a scroll
of honorary citizenship by the may
or’s representative, Public Safety
Commissioner Bernard McCloskey.
W. F. Mitchell, president of the
A&M Former Students Association,
was speaker at the Monday lunch
eon. He thanked John Cutthrell,
president of the local A&M club,
for making arrangements for the
RVs at the Mardi Gras celebration.
The cadets are being housed at
Camp LeRoy Johnson in New Or
leans. Former A&M students of
New Orleans are paying for meals
And lodging.
Final Celebrations
1
The Aggies left College Station
Saturday and arrived, in the Cres
cent City in time to take part in
High School
Day Planners
Sets Schedule
The High School Day plan
ning committee met yesterday
and voted to retain the pre
sent method of having the
home town clubs and former
students’ clubs invite high school
seniors from their home towns to
High School Day activities,
f The committee drew up a sche
dule for High School Day which
will be held here Saturday, March
14.
Letters and schedules of High
* School Day activities will be mail
ed to all whose names are turned
in. The approved schedule calls
for registration to begin at noon,
Friday, March 13. *
A student leader will welcome
the guests to the campus in a
short meeting at 9:30 a. m. Sat
urday. After the meeting, buses
will take the visitors on a tour
of the campus.
President M. T. Harrington will
welcome the visitors with a talk
on the A&M College and campus
activities at 12:45 Saturday. Also
scheduled for this meeting are
short speeches on the Military De
partment and the A&M College
Adjunct and the issuing of Sport’s
i Day tickets.
The high school visitors will be
housed in college dormitories. The
visitors will eat in either Duncan,
e or Sbisa mess halls. The only cost
to the guests will be a charge of
50 cents for each meal eaten in
the mess halls.
Students not officially in home
town clubs may submit names of
high school seniors to be added to
the list.
the final celebrations. Mardi Gras
has been underway for several days
and comes to an end tonight on the
eve of Ash Wednesday.
The RVs will probably be re
quired to push through the gigan
tic mob of parade spectators today
with rifles at port arms as they at
tempt to carry out their precision
military drills and cadences in spite
of the over-crowded streets.
Tonight, members of the Ross
Volunteers will attend the Rex Ball,
honoring King Rex, at city audi
torium. Fifty members of the RVs
were invited to attend the more re
fined Venus Ball Sunday night.
The cadets are expected to re
turn to the campus Wednesday.
Maj. H. O. Johnson and Maj.
Charles C. Waddell of the A i r
Science and Military Science de
partments respectively, accompan
ied the RVs to New Orleans.
Colorado Governor
Muster Day
Speaker Set
Gov. Dan Thornton of Col
orado has accepted an invita
tion to deliver the principal
Muster Day speech at A&M
April 21.
The announcement came yes
terday from the Muster Com
mittee of the Student Senate,
which is making further ar
rangements to invite Texas
Gov. Allan Shivers to be on
hand for the occasion to intro
duce Gov. Thornton.
The Colorado governor is a
member of the A&M class of
1952.
Muster ceremonies are held
by Aggies around the world
wherever two or more can
get together on April 21, Tex
as Independence Day.
Probably the largest Mus
ter service is held in College
Station each year in front of
the System Administration
Building.
Doubt’ - Dr. Goodrich
Strihling Elected
Junior Senator
Weather Today
WARMER
WEATHER TODAY: Clear and
warmer. The low this morning
was 35 degrees.
Seymour J. Smith, E. L. Han
sen, Wallace B. Birkes, and Gil
T. Strihling were elected to the
Student Senate in a special elec
tion held last Friday.
There were 569 votes cast at
ballot boxes located in the MSC
and Bizzell, Law, and Mitchell
Halls.
A comparison of the turn out
with that of last fall’s would in
dicate little since no class offi
cers were running this time, said
Jimmy Holder, co-chairman of the
election commission.
The Senate vacancies occurred
after the close of the first semes
ter when previous members re
signed or left school.
Newly elected members will
take office at the next meeting
of the Senate, Holder said.
Strihling, pre-med. major from
Shamrock, won over 18 other can
didates in a close race.
There was a small margin of
difference in the number of votes
received by the top men for the
junior class post. Strihling receiv
ed 33 of 329 votes. Don Cole fin
ished second.
Smith, veterinary medicine maj
or from Sunset, La., was elected
representative from Bizzell Hall.
He received 41 of 56 votes.
Texas Swine Breeders
Visit Here in March
A field and general inspection
day, sponsored by the Texas Swine
Breeders’ Association and the ani
mal husbandry department will be
held here March 30-31.
Approximately 50 per cent of
the students in Bizzell cast bal
lots. Ray Shanklin came in second.
Only 98 students out of a pos
sible 216 from Law Hall partici
pated in the balloting. Hansen,
animal science major from San
Antonio, won his position with
63 votes. Edward Hill opposed
him.
Wallace Birkes had no formal
opposition for representative from
Mitchell Hall. Birkes is from Chil
ton and majoring in architecture.
He compiled 65 votes, There
were six write-in candidates with
Chester Smith getting 13 votes.
‘Only Sanctif ied Stupidities
If Religion Isn 't Doubled'
By IDE TROTTER
Battalion News Staff
“Don’t be afraid of your doubt,” Dr. Robert E. Good
rich emphasized in his second RE Week message in Guion
Hall this morning.
“You can be thankful that you have the kind of inquir
ing mind that causes you to doubt for this is the only way
that progress comes in any field including faith,” he said.
Dr. Goodrich clarified this by pointing out, “If no one
had ever doubted anything in religion, today we would have
only a collection of sanctified stupidities.”
The Rev. Larry Eisenberg began the morning service
with group singing.
RE Speaker, Dr. Robert E. Goodrich
If Bill Does Not Pass
MSC Would Cut
Many Services
(This is the third in a series of
articles on expected results to sev
eral A&M student activities if a
bill in the Texas legislatui’e allow
ing collection of a compulsory ac
tivity fee does not pass.)
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
“Without its share of student
activity fee money the MSC would
lose the only dependable som*ce of
revenue it has,” said J. Wayne
Wins Another Title
'Mystery ? Girl
Is AF Street heart
By JOE HIPP
Battalian News Editor
Miss June Kelly, the “mystery”
candidate at the Air Force Ball,
Saturday was chosen Air Force
Sweetheart.
Selected from the floor to enter
final competition with five other
candidates, the brunette from Ed
inburg added another title to a
rapidly growing list of distinc-
Teenage Support
Needed by Canteen
Whether or not College Station
will have a Teen Town Canteen
depends on the interest of the
young people, said Mrs. Eugene
Rush, chairman of the canteen’s
planning group.
No more definite plans have
been made by the committee, she
said. R. B. Halpin, who has observ
ed how the canteens worked in
other cities, spoke Friday to A&M
Consolidated High School students.
He explained how the canteens
work and what advantages they
offer to young people.
“It has got to come from the
students,” he said, “and I would
like to see one established in Col
lege Station.”
Halpin said he felt the young
people should be allowed to run
the canteen tmder adult super
vision.
tions. She has previously been
chosen freshman and sophomore
sweetheart of the class of ’54.
Cameron Escorts Sweetheart
Escorted by Don Cameron of
McAllen, Miss Kelly competed
with Misses Sulea Yancey, Di Ann
Boulware, Patricia Martin, Jonet-
ta Lovett, and Chere Swenson, for
the title.
Balloons and cartoons decorat
ed Sbisa Hall for the three hour
ball. The crowd, average in at
tendance danced to the quite fam
iliar strains of the Aggieland Or
chestra.
Air Force officers from the
college and Bryan AFB and sev
eral of the deans of college at
tended the annual dance.
Valentine Weekend, Big
The first “big” social event of
the spring, the Air Force Ball
and various churches sweetheart
banquets attracted a lax-ge num
ber of visitors to the campus over
the Valentine weekend.
Stalling with Cafe Rue Pinalle
Friday night and ’ending at the
ball Satuxday night, the social cal
endar took quite a strain. Bank
accounts must have faired well
over the weekend for student loans
was still in business early Mon
day afternoon.
The Junior Prom, Feb. 28, is
next on the spring dance schedule
with the Third Division Ball fol
lowing on March 7.
Stark, dii'ector of A&M’s two mil
lion "dollar student Centex’.
Stai'k was referxing to the pos
sibility of losing this income due
to failui’e of a bill now befoi'e the
Texas legislatui’e authoi'izing state
colleges and univei’sities to collect
a compulsory student activity fee
not to exceed $15.
The MSC’s portion of the fee
amounts to approximately one-
fourth of the funds necessary for
operation of non-revenue pi’oduc-
ing areas. Loss of the money
would mean a big alteration in
Center activities, pi’omises Stax'k.
Affect Library Time
Included in the pi’obable cuts
would be shorter houi's for the
Browsing Libi’ary; eliminate one
house-cleaning crew which would
leave many looms in the center
uncleaned for the next user; and
stretch the cool season to use less
air conditioning, one of the out
standing warm weather features
of the Center.
Staxk also indicated there is a
x’emote possibility that meeting
looms would be closed to student
oi'ganizations unless a fee is paid
to meet thexo.
Pi'ices of the Center would not
be affected by loss of the fees,
the director indicated. The revenue
producing areas of the MSC get
none of the student fee for sup
port.
“I think one dollar of students’
fees alloted the MSC is very lit-
(See MSC, Page 4)
BAFB Cadet
Dies In Jet
One Bi’yan Air Force Base cadet
was killed and another injux-ed
yesterday when two planes fxom
Bryan Air Force base crashed
within an hour and five minutes
of each other.
Cadet Howard W. Bei’gner Jr of
Chicago, Ill., died instantly at 9:15
a. m. when his plane crashed and
burned three and one half miles
noxthwest of the base.
The tower wasn’t in contact with
Bergner when his T-33 jet trainer
crashed, said Lt. William M. Hod*
son, public information officei’.
The other cx-ash involved Berard
Y. Noel, French air cadet, and his
instructoi’, Lt. Roper V. Davis,
Forums Held
In Dorms By
13 Ministers
Thii'teen visiting ministers are
conducting informal group discus
sions and forums in dormitories
daily dui’ing Religious Emphasis
Week. These meetings are held in
lounges of dorms where the min
isters ai'e living.
They ai’e as follows:
The Rev. Hex’bei't A. Miller, First
Presbyterian Church, Houston —
Doim 1 for Dorms 1 and 3; Rabbi
Robei't I. Kahn, Temple Emanu El,
Houston—Dorm 2 for Dorms 2 and
4; the Rev. John W. Fi'itts, Christ
Episcopal Church, Jefferson —
Doim 5 for Doim 5 and 7; Chap
lain Lt. Col. V. M. Goodhand, of
fice Chief of Chaplains, USAF,
Washington, D.C.—Dorm 6 and 8.
Di\ Martin 0. Juel, South Texas
State Teachers College, San Max 1 -
cos—Doim 9 for Dorms 9 and 11;
Chaplain Maj. E. M. Robie, Fourth
Army Headquarters, Ft. Sam
Houston—Doim 10 for Dorms 10
and 12; Rev. Larry Eisenberg,
Nashville, Tenn.—Doim 16; Carl
Spain, Central Church of Christ,
Houston—Dorm 14 for Dorms 14
and first two floors of Dorm 17.
The Rev. W. J. Coleman, First
t’resbytei’ian Church, Beeville —
Doim 15 for Dorm 15 and top two
floors of Dorm 17; the Rev. Hay
den Edwards, Polytechnic Metho
dist Church, Fort Worth — Hart
Hall; Dr. Herbert R. Howard, Park
Cities Baptist Church, Dallas —
Walton Hall; the Rev. Gordon Col
lier, First Presbyterian Church,
Alpine—Puryear, for Puryear, Law
and Mitchell; and the Rev. H. L.
Polinard, Main Street Christian
Church, Waxahachie—Leggett for
Leggett and Milner.
Discussions
F eatur ed In
REProgram
Religious Emphasis Week
continues today with informal
groups meeting in dormitory
lounges from 4:30 to 6 p. m.
and forums scheduled in the
same places at 7 p. m. Hart Hall
forums will be at 9 p. m.
The program Wednesday will
include morning worship by Dr.
Robert E. Goodrich, main RE
Speaker, at 11 a. m. His sermon
topic will be “The Danger of Toler
ance.”
At 3 p. m. in the YMCA the
Rev. Larry Eisenberg of Nash
ville, Tenn., one of 15 visiting
ministers, will conduct a disus-
sion on planning and conducting
recreation programs for church
and civic groups. All students are
invited to attend, said Mason Lee
Cashion, Jr., president of the In
ter-Faith Council.
Special services are being held
for Catholic students at St.
Mary’s Chapel each morning at
6:45 and in the evenings at 7:30.
The Rev. E. A. Juraschek of the
Catholic Youth Organization in
Austin is conducting the services.
Religious Emphasis Week for
mally got underway Sunday with
a reception by 1 President and Mrs.
M. T. Harrington in honor of the
visiting ministers. Dr. and Mrs.
Harrington received student lead
ers and members of the faculty
at their home on the campus be
tween 4 and 5:30 p. m.
Orientation First
Prior to the reception, ministers
in the RE team were orientated
about A&M. Short talks were giv
en by J. Gordon Gay, YMCA sec
retary; Col. Joe. E. Davis, com
mandant; Weldon Kruger, coips
commander; Dr. David H. Morgan,
dean of the college; and W. L.
Penberthy, dean of men.
Sunday night special services
were held at St. Thomas Episcopal
Chapel in recognition of World
Student Day of Prayer. Bernhard
Ohse, former head of the German
Christian Student Movement and
now a University of Texas student,
was speaker at the service which
included students from several lo
cal denominations.
The RE ministers will have
breakfast each morning in the
MSC dining room. They will have
lunch together with members of
the Inter-Faith Council and stu
dent leaders daily in the Sbisa
Hall banquet room.
Dusty Haze Now Gone,
No Cold Weather Due
With the dusty haze that cov
ered most of Texas yesterday now
gone, the weather situation re
sumed its usual winter mildness
and no freezing temperatures were
in sight for the immediate future.
West Texas and Oklahoma dust
was carried all the way to the Gulf
yesterday and caused visability to
drop as low as one mile at Easter-
wood Airport, the local C A A
Weather Communications Station
reported.
The sky was overcast with dust
until after dark when visability in
creased to four miles at 8 p.m.
Hints of a norther in the College
Station area with freezing temper
atures were disqualified by the
weatherman who predicted a low
for Wednesday in the vicinity of
35 degrees.
Last night’s low was recorded at
38, while the high Tuesday was 62.
The Associated Press reports the
dust which veiled most of the Tex
as sky caused visiability to drop
to one-half mile at Dalhart and
B i g Spring. At Dallas three-
fourths of a mile could be seen,
while San Antonio and Fort Worth
had one mile.
Tommy Dunagan presided and a
quartette, Don Friend, Ben Blan
kenship, Lamar Ashley, and Dick
Reynolds, brought the special mu
sic for the morning. Bill Wiseman
gave the invocation.
Ups and downs in emotions and
faith are symptoms not of the ab
normal, but the normal in human
experience and must be recognized
as such before the Christian can
successfully handle doubt, h e
brought out , in his message.
Ideology Thrown Overboard
The thi'owing overboard of a
whole ideology because some doubt
has crept in concerning one par
ticular doctrine he said to be an
act of pure egotism, setting one’s
self against the millions who do
believe.
Dr. Goodrich then challenged
each person to be honest enough to
carry his doubts through to their
logical conclusion; and to save a
place for mystery in his life.
“The secret things belong to
God,” he concluded.
All RE Week leaders were in
troduced to the students by Presi
dent M. T. Harrington at the Mon
day service.
Jarvis Leads Invocation
O. C. (Putter) Jarvis, Corps
Chaplain, led the morning invoca
tion. Mason Lee Cashion, Inter-
faith Council president, presided at
the service and Martin Bulkhead
gave the special music.
In his Monday morning message
Dr. Goodrich emphasized the det
rimental effect of a little religion.
“It is bad to have people with
only a little religion out represent
ing the whole Christian move
ment,” he said pointing out the
manner in which they may influ
ence others to shun Christianity.
Special Services Set
Similarly he showed that only a
little religion is a burden; a lot of
religion is a power for any one
who possesses it.
Worship in Church,
Says Rev. Coleman
A man should’not attend church
just because he feels it is his
duty, said Rev. W. J. Coleman, of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Beeville.
Speaking before the College Sta
tion Lions Club yesterday in the
MSC, Rev. Coleman said a man
should attend church to worship
God.
In addition to worshipping God,
church is a place to be instructed,
he said. Rev. Coleman said man
should attend church to be com
forted. In church, he will receive
the religion to sustain him through
his troubles.
RE Schedule
Sermon topic, Dr. Robert E.
Goodrich, main RE speaker, Guion
Hall, 11 a.m., Wednesday. “The
Danger of Tolerance.”
Forum discussion subjects for
meetings in dormitory lounges to
night at 7 p.m. (9 p.m. in Hart
Hall):
“Do Science and Religion Con
flict”—Puryear, Dorms 6, 5.
“Are Drinking and Gambling
Sinful?”—Dorms 1, 9, 10.
“What Is Sin?”—Dorm 2.
“What Should I Get Out of Col
lege?”—Hart Hall.
“What Should I Consider in
Choosing a Vocation?”—Leggett,
Walton, 14, 15, 16.
Special Catholic services at St.
Mary’s Catholic Chapel at 6:45 a.
m. and 7:30 p.m.