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Number 30: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1953
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Meets Today jAm.ciIloclo
On Campus
Miss Fay Anderson
Miss Jane Jersig
iors Plan Big Weekend
With Banquet And Dance
A banquet, dance, and Cafe Rue Hancock Pancing School in Fort nished by the Aggieland Orches-
Pinalle will monopolize junior class
activities for the class of ’54’s big
■weekend.
Rue Pinalle will start the gala
weekend tonight with singing and
(of a program featuring tap and
ballet dances by dancers from Ross
Worth. tra. Tickets for the dance may
Misses Gayle Meyers, Pat be purchased at the door for $2,
Brandt, Beverley Firestone, Ca- stag or drag.
mille Wright, Suada Taylor and Chairman for the banquet and
Mary Anderson are the dancers dance are Carroll Phillips, ban
dancing by Miss Carmen Hines ol scheduled in the eafe*s stage show, quetj Clancy M/hliver, dance: Bill
pFort Worth. Miss Hines is part The junior banquet is set to be- Reed, sweetheart: Roland Bnhl-
gin at (kHO p.m. tomorrow in Sbisa man, program; Bill Young, guest;
Mess Hall. Dress for both the and Pete Wright, ticket,
banquet and the prom is formal.
The menu features filet mignon
as the main dish. Tomato juice
cocktail will be the appetizer with
pineapple cheese salad.
French fried potatoes and lima
beans will be the vegetables served
at the banquet, with apple pip and
coffee for dessert.
Esten to Speak
C. K. Esten, English instructor
and sponsorer of the Aggie Play
ers, will make an after dinner
talk to the juniors and their dates.
Highlighting the weekend will
be the choosing of the junior
sweetheart at the dance which
begins at 9 p. m. Saturday in
Sbisa Hall. The sweetheart will
be chosen from five finalists.
The finalists are Miss Hinda
Groner, student at Texas Univer
sity, entered by Jimmy Tyree, Miss
, Jane Jersig of San Antonio, sub
mitted in the contest by Burt C.
Holdsworth, Miss Fay Anderson,
a Baylor University coed, entered
by John W. Neale.
Miss Jackie Tuttle, student at
Southwest Texas State Teachers
College, sponsored by Allen Davis,
and Miss Nell Peel of Lubbock,
entered by Don Lowry.
Music for the dance will be fur-
Miss Nell Peel
Miss Jackie Tuttle
T h e A & M System
Board of Directors meets
on the campus tonight
and tomorrow. This will
be the first meeting for
three new board mem
bers: Harold Dunn of
Amarillo, W. T. (Doc)
Doherty of Houston, and
R. H. (Jack) Finney, Jr.
of Greenville.
Only routine business
is expected to be trans
acted by the nine - man
group.
Sessions will be held in
the board meeting room
tonight and at 9 a.m. Sat
urday.
Radio Programs
To Publicize
School Week
School children of College
Station will take to the air
waves next week to publicize
themselves and their school
activities.
As a part of Public School
Week, March 2-7, students from
A&M Consolidated high school,
junior high, elementary school and
Lincoln School for Negroes will
present six programs over radio
station WTAW.
The fii’st program of the ser
ies will be from 5:45 to 6:30 p. m.
Monday. Statements will be read
from Gov. Allan Shivers, Mayor
Ernest Langford, Supt. L. S. Rich
ardson, Chairman of the School
Board, E. E. Brown and Dr. F. C.
Bolton, president of the College
Station Development Association
and Chamber of Commerce.
Following this, the students of
A&M Consolidated junior high
will give a Texas history skit.
Tuesday, the elementary school
students will give a program fea
turing music and interviews. The
(See SCHOOL WEEK, Page 4)
Meteorology Grads
Get AF Commission
Graduates of a new meteorology
program will be qualified for a
rommission in the Air Force
Weather Service.
Maj. Gen. W. 0. Senter, com
manding general of the Air Force
Weather Service, in a letter to
Dr. Dale Leipper, head of the
oceanography department, wrote
that meteorology graduates would
classify as weather officers with
out AFROTC training.
The new program will begin in
September, 1953. It will be open
ed to students in physical sciencfes
and engineering who have complet
ed two years of college work. Ad
ditional information can be ob
tained at the oceanography depart
ment, Dr. Leipper said.
Schedule Released
For Soph Pictures
The schedule for sophomores’
Aggieland ’53 pictures was re
leased today by co-editor’s Harvey
Miller and Guy Delaney.
The schedule is as follows:
March 2-3 A-D
March 4-5 E-H
March 6-9 J-M
March 10-11 N-R
March 12-13 S-Z
Makeup pictures for sophomores
will be made from March 14-21,
and junior make ups will be tak
en until Saturday.
Ex-War Prisoner
Collect $1,800
To
Although Bob Boriskie never
suspected it at the time, his three
years internment by the Japanese
was worth $1800.
Boriskie, Battalion Sports News
Editor, will receive the money as
compensation for his war-time im-
Weather Today
WARMER
WEATHER TODAY: Clear and
warmer. The high yesterday was
71 and the low this morning was
48.
prisonment. The money will be
paid from impounded Japanese as
sets in this country.
According to Public Law 303,
passed by Congress last year, Bor
iskie will be paid .$1.50 for each
day he was held prisoner.
When asked how he would spend
the money, Box-iskie was non-com
mittal but insisted he wouldn’t
send it back.
Boriskie was attached to a navy
PBY squadron stationed in the
Philippines at the outbreak of
World War II. After most of the
squadpon planes were lost by
strafing, he joined a naval battal
ion guarding the west coast of
Bataan. Later he went to the forti-
field islands of Manila Bay, where
he surrendered in May 1942.
Working as a prisoner steve
dore on the Manila docks, Boriskie
stayed in the Philippines until the
allied South Pacific counter-of
fensive in 1944.
He was then taken to Japan
with a convoy of 28 ships. All but
six of the vessels were torpedoed
and sunk dux-ing the voyage. While
in Japan, Box-iskie was forced to
work in a lead mine. He was re
leased September 1945 upon ar
rival of the first American forces.
'Sla lag 17' Opens
In Guion Monday
A thi'ee-act comedy and mystery
melodxama will open at 8:15 p.
m. Monday in Guion Hall when
the Aggie Playei's present “Stalag
17.”
Still shoi’t of the two dozen
pail's of “long-handle underwear,
any color except x - ed,” Dii'ector
C. K. Esten said the play will
prove to be one of the best pro
ductions by the players this year.
“We ax-e the first amateur act
ors in the southwest to px-esent
the play,” he said. The play is
now on the i-oad after having fin
ished a successful nm on Bx-oad-
way.
Complicated Plot
A complicated plot unfolds
around a group of Amei’ican sold
iers imprisoned in a German con
centration camp dui'ing Woi'ld
War II. An American, acting as a
German agent, is placed in the
men’s barracks to get information
for the Nazis.
His numei'ous escape attempts
and the mystei'y surrounding the
German agent provide many en
tertaining moments during the
play, Esten said.
Barbara Robertson
Chosen Top Student
Barbara Robertson, daughter of
Mr. and Mi's. W. R. Robertson,
College View, has been named out
standing student of the month at
Consolidated High School.
A senior at CHS, Barbai’a is
treasurer and program chairman
of the Student Council, seci-etai-y
of the Roundup Club, and society
editor of The Roundup, the school’s
newspaper. Dux-ing her junior yeai’,
Bax-bax-a received the Babe Ruth
Foundation award for good sports
manship.
“She is a conscientious student
and scholastically outstanding,”
said J. J. Skxivanek, principal.
Each month the student council
chooses the outstanding student
from names submitted by the fac
ulty. The student chosen is then
guest at the Bx-yan Rotary Club’s
luncheon during the fouilh week
of the month,
Included in the cast ai'e Bill
Witty, Dave Parnell, Raoul Roth,
Sherwin Rubin, Bill Williams, Vic
Robinson, Jim Baggaley, Roger
Melton, B. B. Smith, Jerry Mc-
Fai'land.
Bill Withers, Robei’t Shei-man,
Glenn Whitley, Bill Stewart, Bob
Easley and Harry Gooding.
Tickets On Sale
Stage manager for the play is
Mrs. David H. Moi - gan. Iris Bul-
lax-d, Vii'ginia Lemmons, and John
Samuels ax-e publicity directors.
Lighting director is J. L. Shanks.
Pi’oceeds fx-om the tickets now
being sold in military units will
go to the Military Ball Fund, ac-
cordhxg to Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins,
assistant commandant.
Tickets for the play also may
be purchased in the Student Ac
tivities Office in Goodwin Hall or
at the doox-. Price is 50 cents.
Police Class
Closes Today
Twenty-two diplomas will be
px-esented today to the graduates
of the Texas Municipal Police
Tx-aining School which ended its
first four week training program
Thui'sday.
The school is sponsoi’ed by the
Texas Engineering Extension Ser
vice evexy two months for police
officers fx-om all over Texas. The
next training session begins March
30.
Newly elected officers of the
gi’aduating class are Claude B.
Evans of Amai’illo, px-esident; A.
V. Bi'own of Big Spi'ing, vice-pi'es-
ident; and Wayne A. Cox of Lub
bock, seci'etai-y.
Px-esident Evans said of the
training school: “Evex-yone is en
thusiastic about the school. Every
officer indicated his high opinion
of the school. Everyone believes
he has gx-eatly increased his know
ledge of police work. By all means,
I hope this school is continued.
Texas has been in need of such a
school for many years.”
City U Revolts
Against School’s Prexy
Fish Dorm Area
Opens Today
To All Cadets
The freshman dormitory
area will be open to upper
classmen beginning today,
said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins,
assistant commandant.
Visiting houi's will be from 1 p.
m. until call to quarters. No up
perclassmen will be allowed to vis
it the area on Saturdays and Sun
days, he said.
Visitors to the dormitories will
go to the counselor’s office and
sign a sheet giving name, organ
ization and classification, he said.
They also will sign up in the
fx-eshman company commanding
officer’s x-oom befox-e meeting meal
foxmations in the area. If they do
not sign out before leaving the
area, they will be considered eat
ing with the freshmen and their
names will be called at formation,
he added.
The area has been closed since
Septembex-, 1951 and the opening
almost was unanimously approved
by the cadet offieex-s in charge of
freshmen.
This arrangement, if it px-oves
satisfactory will be used for the
rest of the year, Wilkins said.
When asked about the opening,
John R. Bertrand, dean of the
Basic Division said “I have evexy
confidence in the cadet officers
and believe the dormitory open
ings will be a success.”
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 27—(H?)—A dispute over adminis
tration of the University of Kansas City has erupted into a
campus-wide controversy, including student boycotts and
revolt against the school’s president.
An estimated 500 of the university’s 1,880 students voted
at a mass meeting to boycott classes, at least until noon to
day when another mass meeting was scheduled.
The Law School faculty voted an expression of “no con
fidence” in Dr. Clarence R. Decker, university president
since 1938. Students circulated petitions declaring a “com
plete lack of confidence in Dr. Decker and university poli
cies.” 1
Sgt. Major
Picked Soon,
Says Davis
The sergeant-major of the
corps will be chosen in about
two weeks, accoi’ding to Col.
Joe E. Davis, commandant.
The selection, he said, will
be from three recommenda
tions. The Cox-ps of Cadets will
recommend a junior they feel
qualified for the position. The
PMS&T and PAS&T each will
make a recommendation too,
he said. In all probability a
boax-d will select the best of
these three, Davis said.
Interviews are now being
conducted in the corps under
the direction of Cadet Col.
of the Coi'ps Weldon Kruger.
The Sergeant Major, when
appointed, will be to junior
non-commissioned officer i n
the corps, tie will also be a
candidate for cadet colonel of
the cox-psnext year.
Seniors Discuss
Class Gift, Dance
The Senior Ring Dance and in
itial plans for a class gift were
the main topics discussed last
night by the senior class in one
of the calmist sessions held all
year. Only 75 member's attended
the meeting in the MSG As
sembly Room.
Social Secretary Bubba Blank
reported Gov. Allan Shivers will
be speaker at the class banquet
and Billy May’s orchestra will
play for the Ring Dance May 16.
Blank reported committee ap
pointments ,for the banquet and
dance were not yet ready, but as-
sux-ed a fair representation of stu
dents from all housing areas on
the campus. This statement came
after Tommy Kelly requested that
seniors in the Third Division not
be ovei-looked when appointments
are made.
Class Gift Suggestions
Suggestions for a class gift
were requested by Bob Andx-ews,
class treasui'er. He asked that as
many seniox-s as possible make
suggestions and leave them in
boxes to be placed in the MSC lob
by and in the iness halls.
He assured the seniors that final
selection of the gift would be de
cided by a class vote. Andrews in
vited other members of the class
to sex-ve on the committee for se-
cuxing the gift.
Class px-esident Joe Mattei ask
ed seniors to do their best to sug
gest a gift that will be durable and
useful to the college.
“The more ideas we get the bet
ter gift we can pui'chase,” Mat
tei pointed out.
A i-eport on securing active
CCTA Discusses
Pending Pay Raise
Members of the College Class-
x-oom Teachers Association of Tex
as appeax-ed yestexday before the
House Appropriations Committee
at Austin to discuss a proposed
20 per cent incx-ease in teachex-s’
PJiy.
Dr. N. F. Rode, president of the
local chaptex-, said he expected to
learn the results of the healing
next week from the state associa
tion.
Other officers in the local group
are Otis Miller, vice-president; and
M. S. Bx-ooks, seci-etary-ti-easurer.
The chapter here has 68 members.
The CCTA is a section of the
Texas State Teachers’ Association.
membership in the Former Stu
dent’s Association for all seniox-s
was given by Haskell Simon, class
secretax-y. A 50 man steering com
mittee will be chosen soon to con
tact all seniox-s about the FSA,
he said.
Simon Commended
Mattei commended Simon on the
work he had done collecting infor
mation about the class for the
Former Students Association.
The px-esident announced that se
lection of a class agent will be
made at the all-college elections
March 26. Filing for the position
will begin after the next senior
class xneeting, March 12, he added.
Vanity Fair winners will be pre
sented at the Senior Ring Banquet,
Mattei announced. Who’s Who
winners will also be given a scroll
and key commemorating that hon
or at the banquet.
The president asked seniors to
see him individually to pass on
suggestions called for by the Stu
dent Life Committee for better
student-professor relations on the
campus.
President Decker said he be
lieved the problem was twofold:
® A struggle between pei'sonal-
ities who have gotten on each
other’s nexwes.
® A stx-uggle foj‘ power within
the university.
Top Four Resign
Resignation of four top school
administrators Wednesday brought
the dispute into the open.
Decker tex-med the resignations
a “palace revolution” and told a
student mass meeting to judge him
“with mex-cy and wisdom.”
He characterized the situation
as “a family problem that has been
tossed into the hands of the public”
and added:
“When anyone washes his dix-ty
linen in *public such actions are
bound to hurt the univex-sity.”
President—Obstacle
The four faculty members who
resigned contended the president
was the greatest single obstacle to
sound growth of tbe school.
They were Dr. Robert Mortvedt,
vice president; Dr. Norman N.
Royall Jr., dean of the Liberal
Arts School; Dr. Theodore T. Dit-
tiich, dean of pharmacy; and Dr.
John E. Bax-nett, registrar and as
sistant dean of liberal arts.
Dr. Mox-tvedt said the basic rea
son for their action was “Dr. Deck
er’s failure to make positive policy
decisions and carry them out.” He
said one example was the long
pending establishment of the school
of business.
Univex-sity trustees, endorsing
Di\ Decker’s administration, im
mediately relieved Mox-tvedt and
Royall of all administrative duties
although their resignations were
offered to take effect next Aug.
31, the end of the academic year.
No action was taken on the other
two.
Ph iEta Sigma
To Initiate 78
Initiation for 78 new members of
Phi Eta Sigma freshman hopor
society will be held Tuesday, in
the MSC Assembly Room.
The initiates are freshmen who
made the required gx'ade point
x-atio of 2.5 or over during the fall
semestex-.
A picture of the organization
for the Aggieland ’53 will be taken
at 5 p. m. Tuesday on the fx-ont
steps of the MSC. The initiation
will follow the picture.
“All members are x'equested to
be present for the picture and
initiation,” said Jerry Ramsey,
president of Phi Eta Sigma.
KING COTTON—Howard Scaief, as King Cotton of 1953,
will head the eight-man court for the Agronomy Society’s
annual Cotton Pageant, to be held April 24. A senior ag
ronomy major from San Benito, Scaief is a platoon leader
in G Co. and a member of the Rio Grande Club,