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Number 24: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1953
Price Five Cents
Foreign Aid Slice
Asked by Bridges
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen.
Bridges Ji-NH called today for
reassessment and reduction of for
eign aid spending and said he will
ask Secretary of State Dulles for
a preliminary estimate of how
much may be needed to help anti-
Communist nations.
Mutual Security
The Senate Appropriation Com
mittee, which Bridges heads, called
Dulles and Mutual Security Ad
ministrator Harold E. Stassen to
discuss the overseas aid program
at a closed session.
Bridges predicted Dulles and
Stassen will be told that many
senators want “general equaliza
tion” of American aid, with more
attention to the Far East.
Free World
“We think the program should
be worked out with the whole free
World in mind, rather than con
centrating just on Europe,” the
New Hampshire senator remarked.
Bridges said Dulles and Stassen
would be asked if the aid program
can be operated for another year
on about 10 billion dollars already
appropriated by Congress. Former
President Truman had asked for
a little more than 7% billion dol
lars in new funds for the fiscal
year starting July 1.
Sen. Mc.Carran D-Nev., a mem
ber of Bridges’ committee, said
he is confident the 10 unspent bil
lions are enough, and he added:
“Foreign aid spending ought to
be cut to the bone. Congress not
only should cut the funds, but see
to it that holdover money is spent
intelligently.”
I
Bridges said he hopes Dulles and
Stassen plan some sizable reduc
tions in foreign spending.
Flying Trip
Dulles and Stassen recently
made a flying trip to Europe
There are indications they will
hold up fund requests until after
a North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation meeting set for April.
SingingCadett
Concert Tour
Begins Soon
Five out-of-town engagements
and an annual concert here high
light the spring schedule for the j
Singing Cadets, A&M’s talented
musical group.
Bill Turner, musical director,
said the 50 voice chorus will jour
ney to Brownwood, Amarillo, and
Sherman March 12-15, for con
certs sponsored by the A&M
Mother’s Clubs in those cities.
March 29 is the date for the an
nual spring concert at A&M. It
will be held in the MSC Ballroom.
Other trips include a preform-
ance at TSCW in Denton, April
18 and a trip to Tyler May 23,
Turner said.
Soloists are Lamar Ashley,
tenor; Ben Blankenship, baritone;
and Martin Burkhead, bass.
Air Force Flight Operations
Opened to All Army Students
Bill Passes House
Education Group
Army Cadets
Schedule
Radio Show
, Outstanding Army ROTC sen-
\ iors will take part with their
branch instructor in a series of
1 radio programs over station
„ WTAW beginning March 2. Broad-
. casts will be every Monday from
: 5:30 to 5:40 p. m. .
The series, called “The Aggie
Reserve Officer Training Corps,”
will be conducted by the military
science department. It consists of
| 12 weekly 10 minute broadcast’s.
General theme of the programs
[ will be discussions on “What does
the ROTC offer to the student at
A&M?” Maj. R. T. Willets, Army
public information officer, will be
the announcer and moderator of
| each program.
Appearing on the first broadcast
♦will be Col. S. P. Myers, PMS&T.
Starting with the second program,
the senior branch instructor will
be present. Order of appeai’ance is
jinfantry, armor, field artillery,
AAA, engineers, ordnance, quar
termaster, signal, ASA, transpor
tation and chemical.
(This is the fourth 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
A bill to authorize state colleges
and universities to collect a com
pulsory student activity fee was
voted out of the House Education
Committee yesterday and will be
up for House vote in the near
future.
The Senate State Affairs Com
mittee will consider the bill Mon
day. College officials predict this
powerful group may hear some
opposition to the measure. The
hearing is scheduled at 2:30 p.m.
Di\ M. T. Harrington, president
of the college will appear in be
half of the college at the Senate
hearing.
Services Provided
Until this semester, a compul
sory ten dollar fee was collected
from each student, entitling him to
attend all inter-collegiate athletic
events on the campus, an annual,
a subscription to The Battalion,
free services of the MSC, and use
of the college swimming pool.
Swimming coach Art Adamson
said pool facilities would be di-
I’ectly affected if the fee bill does
not get approval from both houses.
Although only a small portion
of the ten dollars formerly col
lected from all students goes to
the swimming pool, the money is
necessary for maintaining clean
and sanitary conditions at the
pool, said Adamson.
He indicated the pool could be
run without activity fee money,
but dressing rooms could not be
kept clean at all times and new
equipment could not be provided
for swimmers.
Ten Cents for Pool
Ten cents of the student activity
fee is apportioned to P. L. Downs,
Jr., Natatorium.
Adamson said he did not think
it would be right to charge stu
dents for swimming in the college
pool, even if the bill does not
pass.
“With money we have received
Horn the activity fund, we have
been able to opei’ate with a few
frills to make swimming more en
joyable for students instead of op
erating merely on a marginal ba
sis,” said the swimming coach.
He estimated approximately 100
students swim each day in the
winter and 300 people a day in
the summer time.
Construction Starts
On New Area Park
Work has begun on a park for
[ students across from the. even-
; numbered dormitories in the new
area, said W. H. Badgett, manager
; of Physical Plants, today.
Ground is being leveled and
cleared and new grass and shrubs
will be planted when time and
money allow, said Badgett.
Construction of storm sewers
will begin soon next to the Law
Hall and Dormitory 3 parking
lots, to start enlargement of the
lots, he said. Work will begin
when the contractors finish the
pipe now being laid in front of
Guion Hall, Badgett added.
Extension in the Law’’ Hall lot
will accomodate about 50 more
cars and the Dormitory lot, about
200 more, said Badgett.
Weather Today
4 LIGHT RAINS
WEATHER TODAY: Light
rains. The high will be in the
CD’s and the low was 39 this morn-
Police Training School
Impresses Enrollees
“I learned more during the first
three days attendance at the Mun
icipal Police Training School than
I learned in my first year on the
local police force,” said G. C.
Binnion of Perryton.
Binnion is one of the officers
from sixteen counties attending
the school at A&M. The school
teaches police officer fundament
als and stresses abandoning
“strong arm” tactics.
C. B. Evans, director of police
A&M Gets 10% Of
Million Legacy
A&M has been willed part of
the four million dollar
estate of Murray C. Sells, Glade-
water oil man. The college is to
receive 10 per cent of the divi
dends from the money after it has
been invested.
Ten colleges in Texas, Oklaho
ma, and Arkansas will receive
parts of the estate. Other Texas
colleges receiving benefits from
the fund will be Texas Wesleyan,
University of Texas, Texas Christ
ian, and Southern Methodist.
Trustees and independent execu
tor of the will is to be the First
National Bank in Dallas.
Dorm 14 Cadets Begin
Beautification Program
Dormitory 14 students have
planted grass in the dorm area
and built new radio antennas,
starting a student-inspired cam
paign for beautifying their dormi
tory.
Aiding in the planning of fur
ther improvements for the dormi
tory is Richard Vrooman, working
on his mastei's thesis in architect-
ui’e in modem design.
College Station Set
As Site of AGCA Meet
College Station will be the site
of the next quarterly meeting of
the Associated General Contract
ors of America, Feb. 22-23. This
was decided in the last session of
the group in Dallas,
training in Amarillo, said every
man intei-ested in law enforce
ment should attend the school be
fore stalling work.
Wallace Beasley, head of the
school, says the course is filling
its basic purpose of teaching fund
amental law enfoi’cement.
From comments and reactions
of the students he believes the
school will become standard for
the state. Another training course
will start March 30, and is nearly
filled.
The policemen say they are im
pressed with the friendliness, dis
cipline, and gentlemanly conduct of
the student body.
However, several of the offi
cers said some of the classrooms
and dormitories where they are
staying need repairing.
Debaters Sweep
UT Series 3-0
A&M’s debate teams have won
all three debate exchanges with
the University of Texas.
Senior division team was com
posed of John Samuels and Bert
Weller with Lynn Crawford and
H. W. Whitney, junior division.
Each team debated three times,
twice before speech classes and
once before a mixed audience. Top
ic of discussion was the national
debate subject on the Fair Em
ployment Practices Commission.
University of Texas will bring
teams here early in March, John
Ebbs, debate coach, said.
High School Day Invite
Deadline Is March 1
The deadline for names of high
school boys to be invited to A&M’s
High School Day is March 2, said
Pete Hardesty, club advisor in a
letter to home town club presi
dents.
This deadline is necessary
so an official invitation may be
extended the boys and their trans
portation may be arranged, he
gaid,
Decision Needed
Says Dr, Goodrich
There are times and occasions
in everyone's life when he must
take a stand, Dr. Robert E. Good
rich explained today to the crowd
which packed Guion Hall for the
second RE week seiwice.
The person who never takes a
stand never stands for anything,
he said.
Open Mind
“We should recognize the vir
tue of an open mind,” Dr. Goodrich
said, “but it is important that we
also recognize the danger of an
easy tolerance.”
The Singing Cadets presented
special music at the services for
which Bill Munnerlyn, captain of
the baseball team, presided.
While students and faculty mem
bers gathered for the service, Lar
ry Eisenberg, a visiting minister,
led group and hymn singing. The
morning prayer was given by Da
vid Wyckoff, a Third Division stu
dent.
Scripture Reference
Dr. Goodrich used Psalms 1,
verses 1 and 2 as his scripture ref
erence for the morning:
Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of
the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sit-
eth in the seat of the scorn
ful.
But his delight is in the law
of the Lord; and in his law
doth he meditate day and
night.
As explained by Dr. Goodrich, if
a man will walk among sinners
and be tolerant of them, before
long he will stand and consider,
and then very shortly sit down
and join them.
Easy Tolerance
America is now faced with the
danger of easy tolerance he said,
expressing the opinion that we
have lost many of our strong con
victions.
Dr. Goodrich described the world
situation today as a battle ground
for fighting faiths and said the
faith with the deepest convictions
will win.
The failure not only of nations,
but of homes and of men, can be
traced to the same cause, he said.
That cause is easy tolerance.
Three Points
At the end of the service, cards
were distributed at the door which
emphasized three points of Dr.
Goodrich’s message: that an easy
tolerance makes for mediocrity,
weakness, and tragedy.
Local Meat Prices
To Remain Stable
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
Removal of government controls
won’t make any difference in local
meat prices.
Operators of College Station
markets say since prices were al
ways under the ceilings, there will
be no change.
The government removed food
ceilings last week as a part of the
new administration’s plan to de
control everything except essential
defense goods.
“If a man had charged the max
imum OPS price, he could have
cleaned up,” said Harry Turner,
manager of Miller’s Super Mar
ket.
Local meat prices are deter
mined by the wholesale market,
Turner said.
MSC Hires Fifteen
Students and Wives
Fifteen new students and stu
dent Avives have been added to
the MSC staff, said Mrs. Helen At-
terbury, secretary to the director.
There are two new bell-boys,
seven waiters, and t\vo night
cleanup men in the Food Depart
ment. Three new Fountain Room
cashiers and one Purchasing De
partment employe.
Joe Pena and Billy Joe Wallace
are the new bellboys. The waiters
are John Amette, Javier Gonzales,
Fred Honder, Raul Loustaurau,
Raymond McLellan, Clarence Mur
ray and Martin Riggs.
Added to the night clean-up
crew \\ r ere James Harrel and Ken
neth Mann. Pat Kimbrough, Opal
Gough, and Patsy McGee are the
new cashiers in the Fountain
Room. Mrs. McGee’s husband, Joe,
now is working in Purchasing.
Four Reviews Set
For Spring Term
Four Corps reviews are sche
duled for the spring semester,
said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, as
sistant commandant of cadets.
Reviews on Mother’s Day, mili
tary ball, federal inspection, and
final review are scheduled defin
itely, he said. There will be a
practice re\ r iew Mar. 12, two weeks
before the military ball.
“There is a possibility we may
hold other reviews if Ave have
special guests on the campus,”
.Col, .Wilkins said.
“Controls didn’t bother us,” said
James Winn, head of Southside
Food Market’s meat department.
“Competition set the prices.”
Winn said house wives won’t
ever notice controls went off.
Using chuck roast as an ex
ample, meat here was 69 cents a
pound during May and June. The
price dropped to 63 cents in July,
and to 59 cents in August.
By September, chuck roast pric
es Avere down to 55 cents, drop
ping again to 53 cents in October.
Prices have stayed at 49 cents
since the last of October.
Rice Students Hear
Tuesday’s RE Talk
A group of 17 students from
Rice Institute attended the Religi
ous Emphasis programs Tuesday,
said J. Gordon Gay, YMCA secre
tary.
The group headed by Neil Ball,
president of the Rice Student Re
ligious Council, is planning a sim
ilar program on their campus,
March 15-18.
After attending the morning
program, the students had lunch
Avith the Religious Emphasis lead
ers and counselors in Sbisa Dining
Hall.
After lunch, they met with the
A&M Inter-faith Council aaJio
helped them plan a similar pro
gram for their school.
The students ended their visit
after attending A r arious afternoon
dormitory discussions.
1 Ed Department
Adds New Courses
The industrial education depart
ment curriculum has been chang
ed with the addition of three neAv
courses and will be effective in
September, said C. H. Groneman,
head of the department.
Industrial technology majors
will be required in their senior
year to take a new tAvo-credit
course, “Analysis Procedures.”
A new elective course in indus
trial safety Avill be offered, along
Avith a new freshman coui-se for
the entire department. The requir
ed freshman course is “Industrial
Materials and Manufacturing Pro
cesses.”
The addition of these neAV cour
ses Avill strengthen all I E options
within the department, Groneman
added.
All Army ROTC students who wish to take flight train
ing may transfer to the Air Force ROTC within established
ratios until actual commissioning time.
Sanctioned by the Department of Defense, this order also
applies to AFROTC students wishing transfers to the Army
ROTC combat branches.
Before contract transfers can be completed, they rflust
•“'♦’be approA’ed by Col. John A. Way
PAS&T, Col. Shelly P. Myers,
PMS&T, Fourth Army Headquar
ters in San Antonio, and AFROTC
Headquarters in Montgomery, Ala.
Transfers involving basic, ROTC
students Avill be completed upon,
agreement of the PAS&T and the
PMS&T.
A&M’s present ROTC ratio is
46.5 for the Air Force and 53.5<
for the Army. No transfers from
either ROTC unit can be made un
less the number enrolled is over
the prescribed ratio. Col. Myers
said the Army’s 53.5 ratio Avould
not be folloAved strictly Avhen con
sidering a transfer. As long as
the number of Array ROTC stu
dents is held approximately to this
ratio, transfers will be alloAved, he
said.
Col. Myers said he won’t be able
to release the number of Armv
students eligible for transfer until
he knows Iioav the present enroll
ment compaies Avith the 53.5 ratio.
Army Units
No large transfer from Aimy
units is expected, because of the
current ratio requirements, Col.
Myers said. If the number of men
wishing transfers becomes too
large, a mutual exchange between
the services will be required, he
said.
Col. Way said the transfer
agreement between the tAVo armed
seiwices Avas started to enable men
in the Army Avho desired flight
training to get a chance to fly.
Top Personnel
Executive Tells
Business Hints
The greatest weakness of
many businessmen today is
their inability to publicly ex
press themselves, said Paul
M. Boynton, supervisor of em
ployment for the Socony-Vacuum
Co.
Speaking yesterday to the Exe
cutive Development Course in the
MSC, Boynton said public speak
ing should be required in every
college curriculum. Boynton is
author of “Six Ways to Get a
Job,” and “Selecting the New Em
ploye.”
Boynton also discussed the in
ability of college graduates to
write letters of application. “I re
ceive nearly 10,000 letters of ap
plication a year,” he said, “and
the majority of them are almost
unbelievably poor.”
Boynton blames poor prepara
tion for these faults. Ninety per
cent of the people who don’t pro
gress in business have some,
harmful personal trait which they
could overcome easily.
Only 10 per cent of the people
in business lose their jobs because
they can’t perform the work, he
said. The easiest and most effec
tive way of overcoming this diffi
culty is to list in writing your
good and bad qualities, and then
study them objectively, said Boyn
ton.
Goodhand Speaks
At Kiwanis Meet
What America needs most is
more religious home life and more
civic minded citizens. Chaplain E.
M. Goodhand told the College Sta
tion Kiwanis Club yesterday.
Chaplain Goodhand is chief of
the plans branch of the office of
Air Force chaplains. He is here
as a dormitory discussion leader
for Religious Emphasis Week.
“I was impressed by the rela
tions between denominations
here,” he said. “Yesterday I sat
Avith a Catholic father and a Jew
ish rabbi, listening to a Methodist
minister preach. That couldn’t
have happened, even in Texas, a
feAv years ago.”
Archivist Receives
Historical Data
A description of A&M’s first
football win OA^er the University of
Texas as recorded in a November,
1903 issue of the Houston Post,
and an oiaginal picture of A&M
scoring the first touchdoAAm, has
been donated to A&M by George
N. Hope, ’04, now living in New
York.
Hope, according to D. B. Gofer,
college archivist, Avas a right
guard on the 1903 Aggie football
squad which defeated TU for the
first time. He also scored the
first touchdown ever made against
TU.
In a letter to Cofer, Hope said,
“Enclosed are some clippings of
games played in 1902-3, A\diich I
have treasured over the years.”
The donation wiii De added to
the historical display room of the
MSC Avithin the next few days,
Cofer said.
VART Sqdn. Members
To Hear Capt. Roxs
Capt. Dionysius J. S. Roxs of
the Netherlands will discuss “The
Netherland Air Force” at the 9807
VART Squadron meeting at 7:30
tonight in the MSC. Capt. Roxs is
the officer in charge of all Dutch
air students receiving technical
and flying training in the country.
He Avill answer questions re
garding Dutch flyers here. A
training film will complete the
program.
Junior Banquet
Ticket Sales
Close Feb. 23
Junior civilian students
should remember they are
just as eligible to attend the
Junior Ball Feb. 28 as corps
students, said T. B. Fields,
president of the junior class.
Banquet tickets will be taken off
sale Feb. 23, said W. D. (Pete)
Hardesty, business manager of
Student Activities.
Dance tickets also will be sold
at the door, he said. Banquet
tickets are $1.50 a person, and $2
admission fee, stag or drag, Avill
be charged at the dance.
The banquet Avill start at 6:30
n.m. and the dance at 9 p.m. at
Sbisa Dining Hall.
Ticket salesmen are E. V. Smith,
1-319, Wayne Finley, 3-310, R. W.
Palmer. 4-205, Nick Alexander,
5-221, John Akard, 6-212.
Tommy Theriot, 7-213. Jerry
Ledwig, 8-215, Smokv Todd, 9-108,
Buddy Fincher, 10-422, Jake Lan
ders, 11-207, Pete Wright, 12-306.,
Lester Smith in the Third Division
area. Tickets can also be bought
in the Office of Student Activities.
High Overhead
Costs Pinalle $27
Cafe Rue Pinalle in the re-open
ing Friday night was a financial
failure, said Miss Betty Bolander,
MSC program consultant.
The cafe made $33 from 44 peo
ple who attended, and the cost of
producing it was nearly $60.
A brighter future is predicted
by Miss Bolander. Friday, Feb. 27,
the cafe Avill present Miss Carmen
Hines, professional singer and
dancer, who will be accompanied
by a dancing troupe from Fort
Worth and SAveetwater.
She has been featured on Rue
Pinalle before, and has appeared
recently on TV in Fort Worth.
RE Schedule
Sermon topic, Dr. Robert E.
Goodrich, main RE speaker, Guiop
Hall, 11 a.m., Thursday: “Back
to What God?”
Forum discussion subjects for
meetings in dormitory lounges to
night at 7 p.m. (9 p.m. in Hart
Hall):
“What is a Successful Life?”—
all dorms except Dorm 5.
“What Qualities Should We
Seek in Our Friends”—Doim 5.
Special Catholic services at St.
Maiy’s Catholic Chapel at 6:45
a.m. and 7:30 p.m,