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Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
“ “ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
hell Appointed
ps Sgt. Major
Cera;
er Sergeant Fred IT.
~alveston has been
•geant-major of the
ets, announced Col.
commandant. Mitch-
e his duties immed-
ol. Dfivis.
ange-d'orestry major
n, Mitchell will as-
es immediately, said
nder Weldon Kruger,
reant-major will take
the corps staff to-
y cadet, Mitchell will
^.sergeant-major from
_nch in two years. Air
^eld the job in 1951
2 duties Mitchell ns-
be direction of first
ivities. He will con-
*t sergeant meetings
—te company level an-
lege S' duties within the
0 'll as coordinate work
BankM 8 -
er Screening
llj^ff^as selected from a
iH 1 standing junior cadets
©rough ly screened by
O. ;icers, and officers of
department.
>f sergeant-major has
, ay for over a month.
NOilTcjiiy gurpi-ised to hear
imed sergeant-major,”
. “I only hope I won’t
m the responsibilities
entraM job -"
•y pleased that Mitch-
J position,” said Corps
Weldon Kruger,
he deserved the job
njT fine showing as first
geant major, and I
DWAE:’orward to having him
’iriVi' staff,” Kruger added.
1 s ion commander, Joe
fl he was glad to see
the post.
>een pushing him for
ce school started be
:ve he is the best man
n ’ Wallace commented.
L '0m®^ ld a t ions for Mitchell’s
as sergeant major of
n ision staff will be sub-
St Ovt 6 m ditary department
Vallace.
ng the position of top
mber Fee
VTnt
y-f our File
irst Day
m ,, / f , rt
our students tiled
¥ _„TTr ir 22 of tlie 80 posi-
UblMuled to be filled in
fijjjal student election
udzod Dobeing conducted in the
tudent Activities, sec-
(Horae) Goodwin Hall, and will
East ofi-°ug'h Friday, March 20.
filing for the various
)LLE<X : ' e follows:
Co-Editors — Jerry
1 Ed Holder
l Co^Editor — B. C.
etcher
ass Vice President —-
m and Lester S. Smith
ass President — Jim
•e Class President—Jim
ass Historian
Chuck
ass Secretary—Wallace
ass Treasui’er — Jim B.
re Class Vice President
Swofford
■ I y dire Class Recording Sec-
^ rt E. Chinnock
^11 Leaders—J. B. (Jim-
Lcui
fell Leaders — R. B.
Phone 1^’ anc ^ Glenn J. Lang-
ARCfc°uncil Corps Represen-
. Qur/Jlis (Louie) Capt
AorU Council Non-Corps Rep-
EEN4—Bill Brucks
Life Committee — Doyle
Entertainment Manager
Hudson, and John C.
junior cadet in the corps, Mitchell
has won best drilled sophomore in
A Infantry and outstanding fresh
man in Company 2. He is a mem
ber of the Ross Volunteers, a dis
tinguished student, held the rank
of corporal during his sophmore
yeai\
Mitchell is the son of Col. and
Mrs. E. H. Mitchell of 5012 Wood-
row, Galveston. His father is cur
rently serving in Europe as in
spector general for the European
Theater of Operations communica
tions zone.
The new sergeant-major is a
graduate of Ball High School in
Galveston where he was a com
pany commander in the ROTC.
He also lettered in football.
Pioneer Airline Service Cut
To Two Flights Daily by CAR
SL C Seeks to Help
Student-Prof Plan
Fred H. Mitchell
Corps Sgt. Major
School Group Hears
By-Laws, Bond Plan
The Student Life Committee
(SLC) approved yesterday plans
to include other student and fac
ulty groups in seeking the solu
tion to better student and faculty
relations.
After heaidng Dr. Carl Landiss
of the physical education depart
ment present the student-faculty
relations subcommittee report, the
SLC decided the problem should
be extended to include comment
from the different schools student
academic councils, the faculty ex
ecutive councils, dean and the Stu
dent Senate.
The motion was made by Joel
The newly formed College Sta
tion citizens group for public
schools last night adopted a set
of by-laws and heard an explana
tion of the proposed $385,000 bond
issue by the A&M Consolidated
School board of trustees.
By-laws for an Educational Com
mission were adopted as recom
mended by the by-laws committee,
with a few minor revisions.
The purpose of the organization
is set forth in the by-laws as “to
aid school authorities, gather facts,
and inform the community.”
An executive council, composed
of the president, vice-president,
secretary, and chairmen of nine
committees, will serve as the
group’s steering committee.
Standing Committees
The standing committees are
state and federal legislation, com
munity trends, school plant and
equipment, school personnel, com
munity sentiment, community rela
tions, academic standards and cur
ricula, health and safety, and mem
bership.
At least one meeting a year is
specified in the by-laws.
Mrs. C. F. Richardson was elect
ed secretary - treasurer of the
group. Mrs. Walter Delaplane,
elected to the position at the
grow p’s o r ganj z a tip n al meeting,
was unable to take the job.
A tour of the school plant; con
ducted by Superintendent ‘ L. S.
Richardson, and supper in the
school cafeteria preceded the meet
ing.
Bond Proposal Presented
John Rogers, school board mem
ber, presented the scho'ol board’s
$385,000 proposed bond plan to the
group.
The plan calls for the building of
a 12-room high school, a 600 seat
auditorium, music, shop and home
economics rooms, and indoor phys
ical education facilities at Lincoln
High School for Negroes.
“We believe this program will
provide adequate facilities for at
least four years,” Rogers said.
In explaining the financing pro
gram for the bond issue, Rogefs
said doubling the present evalua
tion would be necessary, since the
maximum tax rate under the pres
ent evaluation was now being
charged.
Tax Increase
A tax increase amounting to 35
or 40 per cent is estimated by the
school boai’d. This would give the
school an annual tax income of
about $85,000. Bond payments on
old bonds and the new bond, if
passed would be $34,000 a year,
leaving $50,000 a year for main
tenance.
“We’ll set up our committees and
get the ball x’olling as fast as pos
sible,” said Di\ Charles LaMotte,
president of the Educatioxxal Com
mission.
A meeting of the Educational
Commission and the school boax-d
has been set for 7 p.m. Thursday
at Consolidated School. Tentative
plans call for the Educational Com
mission to cii’culate a petition to
determine the extent of public sup
port of the proposed bond issue.
No date jias been set for the bond
election.
Chest Drive
Set Tonight
For Dorms
The Campus Chest dxnve
stai*ts tonight with collections
by Student Senate members
in dormitory outfit meetings.
A showing of “We’ve Never
Been Licked,” a Fight Night
on Max-ch 24 and an Air Foxve
Groxxnd Force basketball game
ai’e scheduled as part of the
dx-ive.
The Student Senate, sponsor
of the dx-ive, has set a goal
of $1,500. The money will be
used for two Twelfth Man
scholarships, one to a Texas
student and one to a foreign
student.
A date for the showing of
the A&M film “We’ve Never
Been Licked” has not been set.
Novelty to Semi-Classical
Fourteen Acts Set
For Talent Show
DAN DAWSON
Battalion News Staff
Fourteen acts ranging fx-om a
novelty musician to a semi-classi
cal bax'itone will make up the Sec
ond Annual Intercollegiate Tal
ent Show at 8 p. m. Fxdday in
Guion Hall.
The 26 performers in the show
x-epx-esexxting seven Texas colleges
and univex-sities, have been hand
picked by the MSC Music Commit
tee on its recent auditioning tour,
Barton Raynaud, committee chair
man aixnounced.
Three acts ax-e repeats from last
NEWS BRIEFS
MSC Dance Classes
Cancelled Tonight
ffr
• ■tudent Senator — John
f IF. L. Hansen, Roy Hick-
JuMiie Hudson, Edwin D.
WW oe J. Jones, Lester S.
Alan E. Soefje
. Sentator fx-om College
$8111 Ids N. Spx-inger
Senator from Vet Vil-
ntrflrt w. Dancer Jr.
^ Itudent Senator — Buck
, ei'i-y K. Johnson
fufnW’jj.g gtudexxt Senatox-—B.
-Ak, and Donald D. Swof-
MSC DANCE classes will be
cancelled tonight, Miss Betty Bo-
lander, MSC program consultant,
x-eVealed.
Manning Smith, the instx-uctor,
is out of town.
* * *
THE SINGING CADETS re-
turxxed Sunday fx-om their annual
tour of West Texas.
They visited Brownwood, Ax-m-
rillo, Shei-man, and Denison. The
tour was spoxxsored by the Mothex-s
Clubs of the towns visited.
Their next performance will be
March 28, in the MSC.
* * *
THREE CLUBS selected duch
esses for the Cotton Pageant Apx-il
24.
Miss Billie Jean Cecil will rep-
x-esent the Piney Woods Club. The
Poultry Science Club selected Miss
Ann Jones and the Pex’miaix Ba
sin Club, Miss JoAnn Ragan.
* * *
C. B. A. (BILL) BRYANT will
be the guest speaker at the Kx-eam
and Kow Klub meeting at 7 p. m.
toxxight ixx rooxxx 3B of the MSC.
Bryant is field sales managex* for
Johnson and Johnson of Chicago,
111., and has written, published,
and lectured throughout th® Unit
ed States.
* * *
THE CHORALTERS, Mary Har-
din-Baylor chox-al gx-oup will pre
sent the Wednesday evening ser
vice at the First Baptist Church
in Bx-yan.
* * *
THIRTY-ONE Air Force cadets
of the ninth pilot tx-aining class
i-eceivejd their wings at Bryan Air
Force Base yestex-day in ceremon
ies that included airmen from five
nations.
* # *
THE GARDEN CLUB forum
will meet Wednesday at 9 a. m.
in the A&M Greenhouse instead of
in the MSC as announced in Fri
day’s Battalion.
* * *
DR. J. D. LINDSAY, head of the
chemical engineex-ing department,
has been named a member of the
American Institute of Chemical
Engineex-s committee on Nuclear
Energy.
The committee is planning an
international meeting which will
explox-e the chemical engineering
aspects of neuclear processes.
year’s show which was a sellout
in the MSC Balh-oom. They are
Billie Biggs, modern jazz dancer
from Fort Wox-th and SMU, Helen
Marshall, Ainai'illo pop singer from
North Texas State College, and
Rosalind Wilson, tap dancer fx-om
Coleman and sophoxxxore at SMU.
The progi’am, listing perform-
ei-s by schools, includes TCU’s
Max-y Sut Stramler, pop singer
from Houston. Joe Liles, the nov
elty musician who plays two tunes
at once on his piano, and Charles
Douglass, semi-clasical bax-itone
from Paducah, Ky., will represent
Baylox-.
Boop-A-Doop Singer
The University of Texas has
three acts, Marilyn Bx-onson, folk
singer from Austin; Gail Smalley,
boop-a-doop singer; and Jimmy
Huggins and his boys, instrumen
talists.
SMLf has three acts. Miss Biggs,
Miss Wilson and her pax-tner Pox - -
tia Bloodworth, and Jo Newland
and Nox-man Bennet who will do
the “Honey Bun” act from South
Pacific are the SMU participants.
Jimmie Harrison, folk singer
and Ernie Martelino, Latin Ameri
can piaxxist, fx-om Manila, Philip
pine Islands, ax-e A&M’s contri
butions to the show.
Sam Houston State Teachers
College will px-ovide a five girl
Charleston chox-us lixxe.
Miss Betty Bolandex-, MSC pro-
gi-am consultant, said that the
committee hopes to sell 1200 tick
ets.
BA Department
Adds New Course
A new curx-iculum ixx personnel
administration has been appx-oved
axxd will go into effect Sept. 1,
said R. L. Elkins, associate pro
fessor of business administration.
Business Administx-ation 105,
the new course, is the only addi
tion. Its pux-pose is to familiarize
new students with different phases
of the field. It is a three-hour
freshman course.
Austin, co-editor of The Battalion,
and seconded by Junior Class Px-es-
ident T. B. Fields.
Two Problems
The subcommittee x-eport pre
sented two px-oblems which must
be solved. These ax-e (1) students
feel censox-ed by their fellow stu
dents if they go to an instructor
for help and (2) student and in-
structors do not have a close
enough x-elationship.
Four suggestions offered to cure
both problems were:
• Cadet officers should encour
age underclassmexx to become bet
ter acquainted with instructox-s
and go to them for help.
® Each student in the unit
should be allowed to ask a profes
sor over each week to visit his
dormitory and eat the evening
meal in the dining hall.
• Stronger emphasis should be
placed on departmental coffees.
© Assign students to faculty
members, who will act as individ
ual counseloxs for this gx-oup.
Earlier, the SLC approved Dec.
17 as the date for the second an-
xxual 12th Maxx Football Bowl
game.
Budget Raised
For Recreation
In 1953 ■ 54
The College Station Recx-eation
Council budget for 1953-54 will
be $4,985, based on expected in
come.
Announced yesterday by Ralph
Rogers, secretary of the Council,
the budget is $500 over last year’s
budget of $4,478. The program for
the coming year, howevei’, has
been expanded to include more ac
tivities, Rogei*s said.
Added this year will be the
Recreation Couxxcil’s assistance ixx
Amex-ican Legion junior baseball
and sponsoring of two minor
league teams for the Little League
Baseball progx-am.
Activities included in last year’s
program that will be continued
this year are swimming, tennis,
pre-school, tumbling, senior soft-
ball, a Lixxcoln High School pi’O-
gram, a community picnic, Chx-ist-
mas party, x-ifling, and senior vol
leyball.
He added that the income for
the budget will be dex-ived from
fees paid by pax-ticipants in swim
ming, tennis, and px-e-school activ
ities, plus contributions and $500
carry-over from last yeai\ The
contributions, expected to total
$2,700, come from the city coun
cil. Community Chest, and Cham
ber of Commei-ce. Rogex-s expects
$1,865 from fees.
It was decided by the Council
Fx-iday to name recommendations
for the City Recx-eation Board at
the Apx-il 13 meeting, at which
offices will be elected. Those rec
ommended must be appx-oved by
the the mayor and the city coun
cil.
Evaluation Report
Set for Wednesday
The A&M Consolidated Element
ary School Evaluation Committee
will make a public repox-t of their
findings at 3 p. m. Wednesday
in the Consolidated cafeteria.
The five-man committee has
been conducting a “self-improve
ment” study of the elementax-y
school this week, said Mrs. H. S.
Creswell, principal.
“Pax-ents and interested citizens
are urged to suppox-t their school
by attending this committee xneet-
ing,” said Michael V. Krenitsky,
px-esident of the Mothex-s and Dads
Club.
Members of the evaluation com
mittee are Teresa Cax-rel, Texas
Education Agency; Dx\ Alma Free
land, Univex-sity of Texas; Dr.
Robext Jacobs, A&M Basic Divi
sion; Paul Manning, Navasota ele
mentax-y px-incipal; Jim Morx-man,
Hempstead School superintendent;
and Dox-othy Jean Gx-een, fifth
grade teacher at Casin School,
Austin,
College Station’s airline flights have been reduced from
six to two per day, following an order by the Civil Aero
nautics Board to Pioneer Airlines.
Criticized for buying new Pacemaker planes to replace
the pre-war DC-3’s and ordered to reduce service to the 21
cities in Texas and New Mexico, Pioneer President General
Robert J. Smith announced the airline’s action.
“We are grievously shocked that the Civil Aeronautics
Board in Washington has declared that Pioneer must provide
a second class service to the people on its 21-city system in
Texas and New Mexico,” Smith said.
“This new and latest edict from the board can mean
; ♦■one thing—the board would have
H'i 1 J 1 *1 Pioneer be a second class ax-iline
Bloodmobiie
Unit Sets Goal
At 200 Pints
Two hundred pints of blood
will be the goal of the South
east Texas Bloodmobiie Unit’s
second visit to the campus,
March 24.
More than 200 pints were don
ated at the Bloodixxobile’s first
visit, Dec. 17.
First sergeants have beexx given
donor forms fox* distx-ibution to
their units. Anyoxxe between the
ages of 21 and 59 may donate.
Doxxors between the ages of 18
and 21 must have the consent of
their family.
Any staff membex-s, local resi
dent or non-doranitoi-y student who
wishes to can donate by calling
the Housing Office and making axx
appointnxent.
A doctor and a staff of regis-
tex-ed nurses will take donations.
They will be assisted by volunteer
workers from College Station,
with refx-eshments provided by the
Kiwanis Club.
The volunteer workers and their
jobs are as follows:
Donor Room: Mesdames C. C.
Doak, J. J. Woolket, R. H. Shuff
ler, A. D. Adamson, M. M. Norton
and J. E. Robei'ts.
Canteen: Mesdames J. R. Oden,
R. E. Leightoxx, R. D. Lewis, B.
H. Dewey and W. R. Horsley.
Ox-ange Juice: Mesdames Walter
Delaplane and Bx-int Mox-ris.
Escort with cax’d and bottle:
Mx-s. Lee P. Thompson.
Bottle Lablers: Mesdames C. B.
Godbey and Bennie Zinn.
Walkex-s: Mesdames Fred Weick
and C. H. Thompson.
Hostesses: Mesdames T. W. Le-
land, W. R. Hox-sley, M. T. Har
rington and D. W. Williams.
Registration: Mesdames Ax-m-
strong Price, Paul A. Van Tassell
and Thomas H. Swygert.
providing second class sex-vice to
what the Civil Aex-onautics Board
must feel ax-e second class citi
zens,” he said.
•
No decision has been reach
ed by the CAB on a proposed
Trans-Texas air line service
to College Station.
Trans-Texas wants to make
College Station a stop for
flights from Austin to Tyler
and from Austin to Beaumont.
The CAB hearing in Washing,
ton D. C. last Thursday was to
determine whether or not
there is need for additional air
service here.
•
Smith said that he was “both
shocked and stumxed” that the
boaxd had placed “an ix-on cuxtain
on the service Pioneer can x-ender
to the people of Texas and New
Mexico.”
He said that the boax-d’s trial
examiner had x-eported to the
board that Pioneex-’s change of
aix-cx-aft had met “the standards
of honest economical and effici
ent management” but had evident
ly set aside this finding “as if to
punish Pioneer for its progress.”
Must Reduce Service
As a x-esult of the ox-der, Pioneer
xnust reduce sex-vice, dismiss many
of the company’s 450 pex-sonnel,
stop purchases, study possible sus
pension of other sex-vices and con
sider sale of Pacemaker planes.
Flight 45, depax-ting Eastex-wood
Aix-port at 3:53 p. m. for Dallas,
and Flight 64, departing at 8:40
p. m. for Houston ax-e the only
two flights leaving College Statioxx
daily, sixxce the cut. Two other
flights to Houston, one to Dallas
and one to Austin have been can
celled.
College Station Postmaster, T.
O. Walton, said yesterday that
he had heax-d nothing about the
cut. It is not known exactly how
the action will affect local air
mail sex-vice, he said, but it cex--
taixxly will be affected.
FSA Executive Board
Okevs $40,000 Budget
The Fox-mer Students Associa- lection. The boax-d hoped the per-
tion executive board approved a
1953 budget of $40,000 Satux-day.
An incx-ease of $2,000 over the
1952 budget, the money will be
used to finance the Former Stu
dents Association loan funds and
the A&M Development Fund.
Sites for the px-oposed Aggie
Inter-Faith Chapel were discussed.
Among the sites mentioned was
the corner where the Assexxxbly
Hall stood aci'oss from the px-esi-
dent’s home and the paxk-like ax-ea
south of the new gymnasium on
Houston St.
Distx-icts 2 and 3 of the Former
Students Associatxion in the South
Plains ax-ea of West Texas were
redistx-icted. Eight counties wex-e
involved in the change of territory.
District 2 gained Lovin, Wixxkler,
Ectox-, Ward and Cx-ane counties
fx-om Distxict 3. Distxict 3 gained
thxee counties, Cx-ockett, Schleicher
and Sutton from Distinct 2.
The committee in chax-ge of col
lections for the 1953 Development
Fund is not satisfied with retuxnxs
to date, said L. B. Locke of the
Association office here.
To increase the volume of con
tribution to the fund, agents were
appointed to take charge of col-
Fellowships Given
In Oceanography
Fellowships and assistantships
in oceanogx-aphy are available to
graduates in physical and biologi
cal sciences and engineex-ing, said
Dr. Dale F. Leippex-, head of the
oceanogx-aphy depax-tment.
Fellowships include the United
Gas Fellowship in Engineex-ing
Oceanography, $3,000 and the Dow
Fellowship in Chemical Oceanogra
phy, $2,000.
sonal touch would have more ef
fect on contributions than mail
solicitations.
Dick Hexwey, ’42, executive sec-
retax-y of the Fox-mer Students
Association, said the color and
black and white films of Aggie
football games wex-e wanted by
A&M Clubs throughout the state.
Annual meeting of the Former
Students Association was set for
May 23-24 in the MSC.
On March 30, x-epresentatives
from A&M Clubs over the state
will meet with, student repi-esenta-
tives of the same hometown clubs
on campus, said Locke.
Weather Today
SPRING SHOWERS
WEATHER TODAY: Partly
cloudy with occasional light scat
tered rainshowers. The maximum
temperatux-e will px-obably be in
the upper 70’s and the minimum
tomorx-ow morning in the middle
60’s.