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[ e<L Ireulated Daily ) 90 Per Cent Local Residents ul Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1953 Price Five Cents hel lAppoin led ps Sgt. Major i,er Sei'^pnnt Fred U. Jalveston has been Igeant-major of the lets, announced Col. commandant. Mitch- le his duties iinmed- ^ol. Davis. g'ang’e-foiestry major jn, Mitchell will as- tes immediately, said .nder Weldon Kruyer. reant-major will take i\ the corps staff to- 6 era, y cadet, Mitchell will ^sergeant-major from _^nch in two years. Air ^ ^ield the job in 1951 | - duties Mitchell as- %l| be direction of first ivities. He will con st sergeant meetings —te company level an- ICge duties within the 'll as coonlinate work ^ankiE; 18 - er Screening )Jjg(T(^as selected from a 0 standing junior cadets oroughly screened by O. ucers, and officers of k department. if sergeant-major has „ ay for over a month. hOL my surprised to hear imed sergeant-major,” . “I Only hope I won’t m the responsibilities entraM job -” •y pleased that Mitch- 1 position,” said Coips til Qm Weldon Kruger. he deserved the job ggy fine showing as first geant major, and 1 DWAIa'orward to having him 'irrvh staff,” Kruger added. 1 L\n s ion commander, Joe I i he was glad to see the post. •een pushing him for ce school started be :ve he is the best man p, Wallace commented. LOmmir. |dations £ or Mitchell’s as sergeant major of n ision staff will be sub- St 0W e m i6tary department Vallace. „ _ ng the position of top x # mber Fet; y-f our File '^lections irst Day our students filed _ . u . r ir 22 of the 80 posi- UUtli^uled to be filled in ^jjyal student election irizod conducted in the ■tudent Activities, sec- (Hoinf) Goodwin Hall, and will East ofl’ ovi gh Friday, March 20. filing for the various )LLE(!t ! ‘ e us i follows: Co-Editors — Jerry T Ed Holder 1 Co-Editor — B. C. tcher ass Vice President —- n and Lester S. Smith ass President — Jim e Class President—Jim 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 year. 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 CAB SLC 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 hearing 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 steexfng 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. Mi’s. Walter Delaplane, elected to the position at the g r o u p’s oi’gaOLjzj.tiqnal 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 schobl board’s $385,000 proposed bond plan to the group. The plan calls for the building of a 12-room high school, a GOO 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, Rogers 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 board. 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 rolling as fast as pos sible,” said Dr. Charles LaMotte, president of the Educational Com mission. A meeting of the Educational Commission and the school board has been set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Consolidated School. Tentative plans call for the Educational Com mission to circulate a petition to determine the extent of public sup port of the proposed bond issue. No date lias been set for the bond election. Chest Drive Set Tonight For Dorms The Campus Chest drive starts tonight with collections by Student Senate members in dormitory outfit meetings. A showing of “We’ve Never Been Licked,” a Fight Night on March 24 and an Air Force Ground Force basketball game are scheduled as part of the drive. The Student Senate, sponsor of the drive, 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 from a novelty musician to a semi-classi cal baritone will make up the Sec ond Annual Intercollegiate Tal ent Show at 8 p. m. Friday in. Guion Hall. The 26 performers in the show representing seven Texas colleges and universities, have been hand picked by the MSC Music Commit tee on its recent auditioning tour, Barton Raynaud, committee chair man announced. Three acts are repeats from last ass Historian Chuck lass Secretary—Wallace ass Treasui’er — Jim R. re Class Vice President offord Recording Sec- t E. Chinnock 11 Leaders—J. B. (Jim- L C V_-' 1 cl 1~> D. Swoffo ! I y iVe Class 1 ^ pt-. E fh; Coif NEWS BRIEFS MSC Dance Classes Cancelled Tonight Fell Leaders — R. B. phone (^1, an( ^ Glenn J. Lang- ARDfeouncil Corps Represen- .QtuAiis (Louie) Capt Aoiii Council Non-Corps Rep- EEIV-ls—Bill Brucks Life Committee — Dovle Entertainment Manager Hudson, and John C. tudent Senator — John L, Hansen, Roy Hick- ie Hudson, Edwin D. oe J. Jones, Lester S. Alan E. Soefje . Sentator from College jreaitl'vis N. Springer Senator from Vet Vil- rimtf W. Dancer Jr. “ Student Senator — Buck , erry K. Johnson student Senator—B. -'-"hk, and Donald D. Swof- MSC DANCE classes will be cancelled tonight, Miss Betty Bo- lander, MSC program consultant, revealed. Manning Smith, the instructor, is out of town. * * * THE SINGING CADETS re turned Sunday from their annual tour of West Texas. They visited Brownwood, Arm- rillo, Sherman, and Denison. The tour was sponsored by the Mothers Clubs of the towns visited. Their next performance will be March 28, in the MSC. sfc THREE CLUBS selected duch esses for the Cotton Pageant April 24. Miss Billie Jean Cecil will rep resent the Piney Woods Club. The Poultry Science Club selected Miss Ann Jones and the Permian Ba sin Club, Miss JoAnn Ragan. * * * C. B. A. (BILL) BRYANT will be the guest speaker at the Kream and Kow Klub meeting at 7 p. m. tonight in room 3B of the MSC. Bryant is field sales manager for Johnson and Johnson of Chicago, Ill., and has written, published. and lectured throughout th® Unit ed States. * * * THE CHORALTERS, Mary Har- din-Baylor choral gi’oup will pre sent the Wednesday evening ser vice at the First Baptist Church in Bryan. * * * THIRTY-ONE Air Force cadets of the ninth pilot training class received their wings at Bryan Air Force Base yesterday in ceremon ies that included airmen from five nations. •K 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 engineering department, has been named a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers committee on Nuclear Energy. The committee is planning an international meeting which will explore the chemical engineering aspects of neuclear processes. year’s show which was a sellout in the MSC Ballroom. They are Billie Biggs, modern jazz dancer from Fort Worth and SMU, Helen Marshall, Amarillo pop singer from North Texas State College, and Rosalind Wilson, tap dancer from Coleman and sophomore at SMU. The program, listing perform ers by schools, includes TCU’s Mai’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 baritone from Paducah, Ky., will represent Baylor. Boop-A-Doop Singer The University of Texas has three acts, Mafilyn Bronson, 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 partner Por tia Bloodworth, and Jo Newland and Norman 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 pianist, from Manila, Philip pine Islands, are A&M’s contri butions to the show. Sam Houston State Teachers College will provide a five girl Charleston chorus line. Miss Betty Bolander, MSC pro gram consultant, said that the committee hopes to sell 1200 tick ets. BA Department Adds New Course A new curriculum in personnel administration has been approved and will go into effect Sept. 1, said R. L. Elkins, associate pro fessor of business administration. Business Administration 105, the new course, is the only addi tion. Its puiiiose 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 Pres ident T. B. Fields. Two Problems The subcommittee report pre sented two problems which must be solved. These are (1) students feel censored 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 relationship. Four suggestions offered to cure both problems were: • Cadet officers should encour age underclassmen to become bet ter acquainted with instructors 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 counselors for this group. Earlier, the SLC approved Dec. 17 as the date for the second an nual 12th Man Football Bowl game. Budget Raised For Recreation In 1953 - 54 The College Station Recreation 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, however, has been expanded to include more ac tivities, Rogers said. Added this year will be the Recreation Council’s assistance in American Legion junior baseball and sponsoring of two minor league teams for the Little League Baseball program. Activities included in last year’s program that will be continued this year are swimming, tennis, pre-school, tumbling, senior soft- ball, a Lincoln High School pro gram, a community picnic, Christ mas party, rifling, and senior vol leyball. He added that the income for the budget will be derived from fees paid by participants in swim ming, tennis, and pre-school activ ities, plus contributions and $500 carry-over from last year. The contributions, expected to total $2,700, come from the city coun cil. Community Chest, and Cham ber of Commerce. Rogers expects $1,865 from fees. It was decided by the Council Friday to name recommendations for the City Recreation Board at the April 13 meeting, at which offices will be elected. Those rec ommended must be approved 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 report 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 elementary school this week, said Mrs. H. S. Creswell, principal. “Parents and interested citizens are urged to support their school by attending this committee meet ing,” said Michael V. Krenitsky, president of the Mothers and Dads Club. Members of the evaluation com mittee are Teresa Carrel, Texas Education Agency; Dr. Alma Free land, University of Texas; Dr. Robert Jacobs, A&M Basic Divi sion; Paul Manning, Navasota ele mentary principal; Jim Morrman, Hempstead School superintendent; and Dorothy Jean Green, 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 -♦•orie thing—the board would have Pioneer be a second class ariline Bloodmobile Unit Sets Goal At 200 Pints Two hundred pints of blood will be the goal of the South east Texas Bloodmobile Unit’s second visit to the campus, March 24. More than 200 pints were don ated at the Bloodmobile’s first visit, Dec. 17. First sergeants have been given donor forms for distribution to their units. Anyone between the ages of 21 and 59 may donate. Donors between the ages of 18 and 21 must have the consent of their family. Any staff members, local resi dent or non-dormitory student who wishes to can donate by calling the Housing Office and making an appointment. A doctor and a staff of regis tered nurses will take donations. They will be assisted by volunteer workers from College Station, with refreshments 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. Roberts. Canteen: Mesdames J. R. Oden, R. E. Leighton, R. D. Lewis, B. H. Dewey and W. R. Horsley. Orange Juice: Mesdames Walter Delaplane and Bxlnt Morris. Escort with card and bottle: Mrs. Lee P. Thompson. Bottle Lablers: Mesdames C. B. Godbey and Bennie Zinn. Walkers: Mesdames Fred Weick and C. H. Thompson. Hostesses: Mesdames T. W. Le- land, W. R. Horsley, M. T. Har rington and D. W. Williams. Registration: Mesdames Arm strong Price, Paul A. Van Tassell and Thomas H. Swygert. providing second class service to what the Civil Aeronautics Board must feel ai’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 stunned” that the board had placed “an iron curtain on the service Pioneer can render to the people of Texas and New Mexico.” He said that the board’s trial examiner had reported to the board that Pioneer’s change of aii’craft 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 progi’ess.” Must Reduce Service As a result of the order, Pioneer must reduce sexvice, dismiss many of the company’s 450 pei’sonnel, stop purchases, study possible sus pension of other services and con sider sale of Pacemaker planes. Flight 45, departing Easter-wood Airport at 3:53 p. m. for Dallas, and Flight 64, departing at 8:40 p. m. for Houston are the only two flights leaving College Station daily, since 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 heard nothing about the cut. It is not known exactly how the action will affect local air mail service, he said, but it cer tainly will be affected. FSA Executive Board Okeys $40,000 Budget The Former Students Associa- lection. The board hoped the per- tion executive board approved a 1953 budget of $40,000 Saturday. An increase 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 proposed Aggie Inter-Faith Chapel were discussed. Among the sites mentioned was the corner where the Assembly Hall stood across from the presi dent’s home and the park-like area south of the new gymnasium on Houston St. Districts 2 and 3 of the Former Students Associatiion in the South Plains area of West Texas were redistricted. Eight counties were involved in the change of territory. District 2 gained Lovin, Winkler, Ector, Ward and Crane counties from District 3. District 3 gained three counties, Crockett, Schleicher and Sutton from District 2. The committee in charge of col lections for the 1953 Development Fund is not satisfied with retunrs 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 oceanography are available to graduates in physical and biologi cal sciences and engineering, said Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the oceanography department. Fellowships include the United Gas Fellowship in Engineering 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 Hervey, ’42, executive sec retary of the Former Students Association, said the color and black and white films of Aggie football games were 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, representatives from A&M Clubs over the state will meet with, student representa 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 temperature will probably be in the upper 70’s and the minimum tomorrow morning in the middle 60’s.