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iber34: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1953
Price Five Cents
&M Group Picks
"ueen of Colton
"t TSCW Sunday
Cotton Harold Scaief and
rt travel tomorrow to Den-
pick a queen for the 20th
Cotton Pageant and Ball,
queen and her eight at-
fs will be chosen from 32
hopefuls at a dance Satur-
d announced Sunday. The
jonipeting were picked for
personality and pop-
jomp< 11
pauty,
• 1
bei*s of the Royal court will
thelattendants at the Pag-
lourt members making the
re seniors Bob Johnson of
1 ^'orth, H. Fritz Welch Jr. of
raulfels, Leonard Thornton
nple and Tom Payne of
i. Payne replaces Glenn
■of ftlexia, who is engaged
Tarried and requested to be
d for this reason.
Juniors on Court
>rs lire Ernie M. Enloe of
a. Berry Buster of Way-
nd Leonard Stasney of
• .. Frank Ford of Lubbock
only sophomore on the
mpqnying the king and his
■re Clarence Watson, fncultv
•; IVliss Frances (Tidge)
director of the Pageant;
Sennott and Frank N. Man-
. f Tlie Battalion.
A.ggies last year chose Pat
TSCW junior from Stark-
v iss., as their queen.
“ V students each year are
for this ceremony, held in
md sponsored by the A&M
my I Society. Money raised
pageant is used for A&M
to study cotton practices
Since the founding of the
in the early 30’s, students
jtudied in Europe, Asia,
[and South America.
TSCW Nominees
PSCW nominees, with their
studies and home cities,
follows:
rs: Naomi Allison, bacter-
md introduction to medical
>gy, Carthage; Myrna Cas-
nterior design, Hamilton;
Fowler, health, physical
>n, Bryan; Patsy Jo Nash,
El Dorado, Ark.; Joan
child development and nur-
ducation, Austin; Peggy
in, advertising design, Fort
and Beth Singleton, art
m, Commerce,
rs: Cora Jane Becker, in
design, New Braunfels;
Bendy, radio-speech, Smith-
Julie Bourg, radio-speech,
; Margot Dayton, costume
and fashion illustration,
Denton; Jane McBrierty, secretar
ial service, Ennis; Jo An Rptledge,
speech, Benavides; Ann Simmons,
journalism, Paris; and Barbara
Wise, kindergarten-primary edu
cation, Hobbs, N. M.
Sophomores: Connie Antone,
bacteriology and introduction to
medical technology, Little Rock,
Ark.; Betty Bob Aughtry, kin
dergarten - primary education,
Gainesville; Marcia Dean, home
economics education, Austin; Bev
erly Drawe, journalism, Mercedes;
Mary Lou Johnston, foods and nu
trition, Port Isabel; Jonette Lov
ett, French, Memphis, Tenn.; Joy
McDermott, business, Alvin; and
(See CANDIDATES, Page 4)
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Stalin Dies
Successor Not Named
John Scott
Controversial ?
f:
Tidge Rattan
Pageant Director
Dallas Firm
Plans Cotton
Queen’s Dress
Neiman-Marcus of Dallas, who
designed Mrs. Eisenhower’s Inaug
ural Ball gown, will design the
gown to be worn by Queen Cot
ton at the 20th ^annual Cotton
Pageant and Ball, according to
Frances (Tidge) Rattan, director
of the Pageant.
Miss Rattan is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Rattan, 305
Walton E., and a graduate of
TSCW.
“This Pageant will be entirely
different this year,” the director
said. “We are not going to have
a style show, but a musical with
cotton’s place in the south as our
theme.
In the past, the Pageant has
consisted of a style show which
presented the latest cotton fash
ions. Mrs. Bill Turner of Col
lege Station directed the Pageant
last year.
Definite plans for the show are
being completed but probably will
be kept secret, Miss Rattan said.
She will leave tomorrow for
Denton with the Cotton Court to
help choose the queen.
‘Fish’ Ball Slated
In Sbisa Tonight
Freshmen will hold their annual
dance Friday night followed Sat
urday by the Third Division Ball.
The Freshman., Ball, will last
from 9 p., m. to 12 p. m. in Sbisa
Dining Hall. Music will be sup
plied by the Aggieland orchestra.
Tickets cost $2 apiece and can p»e
bought in the Office of Student
Activities. They are alfeo being
sold in each Third Division dorm
itory. Seniors with dates may at
tend.
Scheduled from 9 to 12 p. m. in
ientist to Speak
n Space Travel
01
(By ED HOLDER
|alion Managing Editor
ecfets of Buck Rogers and
e ships will be revealed at
m. Monday in the Biologi-
nces lecture room,
illy Ley, a leading auth-
i rockets and space travel,
•uss “Interplanetary Travel
ible.”
most recent work was his
a symposium which wrote
of “Man on the Moon” in
tober edition of Collier’s
le.
symposium said, “We will
m
isJ
Dr. Willy Lee
‘many’s Rocket Man
go to the moon in the next 25
years. Within 10 or 15 years, we
can expect to see a permanent
station erected in space, 1,075
miles high, in an orbit which will
carry it around the earth once
every two hours.”
Ley says the conquest of space
is within man’s reach in our time.
Now Has Skill
As brought out in his many
books, he says the United States
now has the information and en
gineering skill to realize without
delay a revolution in rapid trans
port, and to create interplanatary
bodies for the advancement of
travel and communications.
Ley’s lecture is sponsored joint
ly by the Schools of Engineering
and Arts and Sciences.
Bom in Berlin in 1906, he stud
ied at the Universities of Berlin
and Konisberg in East Piussia.
He studied paleontology, astrono
my and physics.
Helped Create Society
In 1927 he became one of the
founders, and later vice-president
of the German Rocket Society. Af
ter Hitler’s advent in Germany,
he went to England, and then to
America in 1935.
Ley is now an American citizen.
He has been science editor of New
York newspapers, a research en
gineer for the Washington Insti
tute of Technology and a consul
tant to the Office of Technical
Services of the Department of
Commerce.
His many books include, '‘Days
of Creation,” “The Conquest of
Space” and “Rockets, Missiles and
Space Travel.”
Sbisa, Satui'day’s Third Division
Ball will have the Prairie View
Collegians playing the music.
Tickets cost $1.25. Nominees, for
Freshman Sweetheart include Rob
in Hood, Wichita Falls; Jean
nette Cline, Seabrook; Eddie Fern
McCarnaack, Dallas; Anne Thomp
son, Whco; Betty Balthrop, Fort
Worth; and Sue Yancey of Beau
mont.
Committee chairman for the ball
are R. C. Barlow, guests; J. D.
Bishop, decorations; Buddy Pat
terson, sweethearts; Billy Trimble,
program; R. C. Moore, tickets;
and Joe Dierschke, class president
and dance chairman.
Sweetheart Nominees
Nominees for Third Division
Sweetheart include Miss Shirley
Stroup of Greggton; Eddie Fern
McCarmack, Dallas; Sylvia Cle
venger, Houston; Sue Yancey,
Beaumont; and Claire Holliday of
Houston.
Committee members ‘ include
Truett Fields and Charles Blank,
dance; Henry Prochaska, Thomas
Kelly, and Joe Fritz, ticket; Rob-
erT Jones and Jack Halsell, pro
gram; Joe Pafford, Dick Faulkner,
and Malcolm Dimmitt, sweetheart;
and Doug Goode and James Moore,
guest. Bruce Gibson, Third Divi
sion Commander is in charge of
all committees.
Expert On Russia
Ta Iks Here Ton igh t
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
A controversial figure who is
a qualified expert on Russo-Am-
erican relations will speak at 7:30
tonight in the MSC Ballroom.
John Scott, a Time magazine
correspondent, was kicked out of
Russia for “slandering” Soviet
foreign policy and “inventing” re
ports of German-Russian friction.
On the other hand, Whitaker
Chambers, a reformed Communist,
has accused Scott as being among
the Time correspondents who op
posed his editing the magazine’s
foreign news section because
Chambers was anti-Russian.
At any rate, Scott knows as
much about Russia and the Rus
sian attitude as any man in the
world. Living and working for
nine years in Russia, he has a
first-hand knowledge of the Rus
sian experiment.
Scott has reported on European
affairs for 20 years. He first
went to Russia in 1932. After
working as a welder and chemist
in Magnitogorsk, he became Mos
cow correspondent for the London
News Chronicle and the French
news agency Havas.
In 1940 and 1941 he traveled
through the Balkans, the Middle
East, and Asiatic Russia writing
1‘eports of what he saw. He was
asked to leave Russia two months
before Gei-many attacked Russia.
Fie went to Japan, where he
joined the staff of Time. During
World War II he was head of a
Time news bureau in Stockholm.
An authority on European prob
lems, he is the author of “Duel of
Europe,” “Europe in Revolution”
and “Beyond the Urals.”
Now making a tour of the na
tion’s colleges and universities
he will speak here on the mechan
ics and problems of modern jour
nalism in a period of severe inter
national tensions.
Sponsored by the Journalism
Club, the talk is open to the pub
lic. After the talk, Scott will meet
the members of the club for coffee.
Senate Discusses
Campus Chest Drive
Brain Hemorrhage
Kills Soviet Leader
MOSCOW, March G—(/P)—The body of Premier Joseph
Stalin, dead at 73, today awaited a state funeral befitting
world communism’s second great leader and one of the most
powerful men in history.
The Soviet man of steel, whose power and influence
reached a third of the world’s people, died in the Kremlin at
9:50 p.m., (12:50 p.m., CST) last night—four days after a
brain hemorrhage left him unconscious and partly paralyzed.
For 29 years he had led the 200 million people of the
Soviet Union and called the turn for Communists the world
over.
Giving no hint of who might succeed him, a joint state
ment by the Soviet Communist party and the government
called for continuation of such Stalin policies as strengthen
ing the nation’s armed forces, increased vigilance at home and
♦ tighter bonds • with Communists
Discussion of the Campus Chest
Drive which starts March 16,
highlighted the Student Senate
meeting last night in the MSC.
March 24 or 26, will be Campus
Chest sports day with an Air
Force-Army basketball game plan
ned and boxing and wrestling
bouts scheduled in DeWare Field
House, said Harold Hudspeth,
chairman of the Campus Chest
committee.
“We’ve Never Been Licked” will
be shown March 20. Admission will
be 50 cents.
A suggestion was made by Joe
Wallace that would put responsi-
Student Leaders
Wo Coeds
ree:
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
It’s all over now;- there will be
no coeds at A&M.
Many former students put down
their pens for the first time since
news of a Senate resolution to
make A&M coed had been announc
ed. The exes had been busy
writing their disapproval and ap
proval to legislators.
Capitol newsmen called it the
greatest avalanche of letters and
telegrams in recent years — and
many controversial issues have
faced the lawmakers in that time.
Coeducation Issue
Most people who favored the co
education issue kept in the back
ground. Sen. William T. Moore
of Bryan, author of the resolu
tion to make A&M coed, charged
there are just as many people foi*
coeducation as against; they have
just kept quiet.
There was a sigh of relief and
regret by the students as the end
war written to this measure which
shocked everyone with the sudden
ness in which it occurred. The
resolution was erased from the
picture yesterday almost as fast
as it came into existence by a 26-1
vote of the Senate. Senator Moore
cast the lone dissenting vote.
First Division Commander Joe
Wallace claimed it was apparent
Moore had really slipped some
thing by the lawmakers. This was
proved, he said, by the force with
which they killed the resolution.
The I'econsidering of the resolu
tion was oi’iginally set for Monday,
but was moved to Thursday.
“I think the way it was intro
duced in the first place was a sly
move,” said Third Division Com
mander Bruce Gibson.
Resolution Favored
He said a few senators may have
favored the resolution if they had
known what it was when first in
troduced, “but all it took to con
vince them the people weren’t for
it was to gain their opinion through
the letters which poured in.”
Gibson called the resolution
“hasty action without the senators
realizing the consequences.”
President of the senior class Joe
Mattel, said, “It shows people all
over the state feel A&M doesn’t
have to go coed to offer some
thing extra to attract high school
seniors.”
(See WHEELS SPEAK, Page 2)
bility for dormitory Campus Chest
collection in the hands of sena
tors living in the dorms. Dormi
tory 14 is the only one not repre
sented on the Senate.
Aggie Muster Plans
Tentative plans have been made
for the annual Aggie Muster April
21, said Gene Steed, chairman of
the Senate Muster Committee.
The committee arranged for
Colorado’s Gov. Dan Thornton to
be principal speaker for the pro
gram.
Col. Ike, Ashburn consented to
be chairman for the muster.
The traditional rifle volley by
the RV’s and roll call for all Ag
gies who have died since the last
muster will be part of the cei’e-
mony.
Who’ll Keep Rev?
A long discussion followed Has
kell Simon’s question about sum
mer and vacation arrangements
that should be made for ft A&M’s
mascot, Reveille II.
Lamar McNew was selected by
the Senate to investigate the pos
sibility of day students caring
for the dog while the corps was
not on campus.
The dog recently was spayed by
doctors, at the veterinary hospital.
Election Commission
At their last meeting, the elec
tion commission was puzzled by
the ruling in the case of newly-
elected Senator Gil S’tribling. He
was elected by a one-vote plurality,
133-132.
The commission, according to
Leo Draper who reported to the
Senate, wanted the Senate’s opin
ion of run-offs when narrow mar
gins appear in student elections.
The Senate voted to leave the
rules as they were. Class elections
usually have run-offs, but the
senate felt they were not neces
sary in the »ase of the student
governmental body.
Travis Receives Gavel
John Pelt, a sophomore repre
sentative to the Senate, present
ed Senate President Bob Travis
with a hand-made gavel for use
at meetings-to-come.
(See SENATE, Page 2)
Honor Code Favored by Many
By BOB BORISKIE
Battalion News Staff
A&M students gave their views
yesterday on the Honor Code
pledge, and the majority of those
asked seems to be^ready for it.
In answer to the question: “Do
you think the Honbr Code will
work at A&M?”, Carl Berglund,
senior wildlife management major
from Marshall, said that the pres
sure would be on the individual.
“I’m undecided. I feel like the
people it would work with are al
ready honest and wouldn’t lie or
cheat or steal whether or not un
der oath. I don’t think it will
change the character of people
who are dishonest,” Berglund said.
Another wildlife management
senior, E. H. Cooper, of San Mar
cos, said the pledge is a good
thing.
“I think it will work,” Cooper
said, “because in the majority of
the cases, the guys would like it.
If it’s not mandatory to tell who
made the offense, I feel sure it
will work.”
A strong negative vote was
registered by B. A. Guest Jr.,
sophomore chemical engineering
student from Killeen.
“I don’t believe it will work here.
It’s tradition here for the fellows
to stick together. None of the
boys would tell the prof who was
cheating. It’s better the way it is
now. I don’t think 10 per cent of
the boys will sign it.”
John Dorchester, senior fisheries
major from Denison, gives the idea
an affirmative vote. He said “The
way the pledge is set-up is pretty
good. It’s voluntary and the fact
that you report the offense and
not the offender is very good.”
B. K. Boyd, junior history major
from Tahoka, said the system has
possibilities.
“I’m not sure whether it will
work or not, but I’ve been under
one that did work. I believe that
though the system may not be en
tirely successful at first, it can
be impi-oved,” Boyd said.
A veterinary medicine junior,
from McLean, John D. Coleman,
“The honor system in the vet
school is by classes. Each class
decides on how it is to be run.
In the best interests of A&M,
each class would have to adopt it.”
The first Aggie who actually
mentioned signing the pledge was
Clifford Hobbs, sophomoi’e agri
cultural education major from
Longview. He said, “They’ve got
to try it fh’st. By experiments,
they’ll find out if it will work.
I’m willing to sign.”
Central America was represent
ed by the statements of Fernando
Montes, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
who is taking special courses in
agriculture.
“It’s a good idea. We have the
same thing at the University of
Honduras, and this year it is be
ing increased there among the
students. I hope the idea is adopt
ed by the students for the good of
the college.”
The last opinion came from
Peter Araoz, Tingo Maria, Peru.
“It’s a nice plan. We don’t have
it in Peru yet, but very soon we
hope to have it started there. We
have different rules. If you break
the rules, it is very severe and
you leave the school for perhaps
one year or perhaps for life.”
throughout the world.
The statement said the body of
world communism’s fallen leader
would lie in state in the beautiful
Hall of Columns in Moscow’s House
of Trade Unions—only a few hun
dred yards from the gr’eat Lenin
mausoleum in Red Square where
the body of the founder of Rus
sian communism lies embalmed for
posterity in a glass coffin.
Funeral Date Not Set
A committee of top Soviet lead
ers was appointed to arrange the
funeral but its date was not im
mediately announced. Nor w a s
there any word of Stalin’s final
resting place.
The death of the man who
sparked the development of Rus
sia from a near-feudal farmland
to a great industrial power ex
ceeded only by the United States
was first announced by Moscow
radio at 4:07 a.m. today, local tfmo
8:07 p.m., EST Thursday, in a
broadcast beamed to Soviet pro
vincial newspapers.
Two hours later, Moscow radio’s
star announcer, Yuri Levitan, fold
the saddened nation that its chief
had succumbed. Levitan twice
read both the official announce
ment and the final bulletin from
the 10 Kremlin doctors who bad
been in constant attendance on Sta
lin since his stroke Sunday. The
radio then played the solemn last
movement of Tschaikowsky’s “Pa-
thetique” symphony.
Official Announcement
The official announcement said:
“There has ceased to beat the
heart of comrade-in-arms and ge
nius-continuer of the cause of Len
in, the wise leader and teacher of
the Communist party and the Sov
iet people — Joseph Vissariono
vich Stalin. The death of Stalin,
who gave all his life to dedicated
service to the great cause of com
munism, is the heaviest loss for
the party and workers of the So
viet nation and for all humanity.”
It was issued in the name of the
Communist party’s Central Com
mittee, the Council of Ministers
government cabinet and the Pres
idium of the Supreme Soviet.
The Russian people appeared
stunned and grief-stricken by the
news. To many, Stalin had seemed
like a father. “Excuse me,” said
one Muscovite chauffeur of his own
tears, “he was a real person.”
Weather Today
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CLEA R
WEATHER TODAY: Clear to
partly cloudy. The maximum tem
perature is expected to be in the
upper 60’s and the minimum near
5f-. The high yesterday was 64
and the low was 43.