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'ooli ’eulated Daily ) 90 Per Cent xt( ^ocal Kesi dents Extenji »om 3C,! to 3 p, Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years iib, l>. m,- PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE ml Pa • Volume 53 :!0 p. in, COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1953 Price Five Cents Dane Student ;c. 'ulifon I SC. ie Crash Kills Instructor I), m.-l! s H. Mills, an in- ~~an Air D'orce Base r .incisco, Cal., was UvHlt of a mid-air col- ^ U ; two BA FI! prop- f Q ling planes, four '() Oil A&M at 6 P- m - I'he n« ,it while flying a Jiiicipn according to in- 1 be he! V ed from two eye- mishap. choc! The sc en in Ie. aining. H i author; iminat b-. itrol pr^ Zeta Grades "All ti ^ asley a Students During records of aRri- nts are being re- ic new member Alpha Zeta, na- Iture honor fra- rmine possible can- cembership in the said Gene Steed, -he local branch, s the only national or fraternity in the ! States said. Forty se the active mem- '■A. There are about s in the national \ lor membership fn ^ agricBltu re student I rade point ratio of X" 'n college activities f /. )ral standing. / f juniors, senior s and j h'es are being invest- / I'Vrrmine whether a // pfied if or member- / / <Aed. Initiation of iJ'jTxAnto the oi'ganiza- f, / ril 20. y also selects the shman agricultural student selected on \ first!year in agri- I'ecognized at the Day iin May. Put tee For position Come 1 *';, sophomore jour- rom’ Wichita Falls, flic nominee for secre- ithwest Jourrralism “Serviif , will hold its an- •om Thursday vrntil he University of lents | representing Y rry Bennett, presi- mitzas, Ed Holder, v, Robert Hendry, , / us, Joe Hipp, Harri aDOUt' Kinslow. •Lard, head of the 7^ tU/il artnrent, will ac- roup. I ion is composed of sm students from a and Oklahoma. ots Needed i r Cadets ■ Force cadets have pre-summer camp A these cadets will rte ser ies of inocu- • are 31 more who shots; and will have rainder of them. Hospital will begin about the first BE A ^ DSC r°r J ?/* Today rds byt „ OLD \ * - ■ TODAY; Cloudy to sasasakThe high yesterday 5?miWas 3 low this morning Two men were in the smashed plane when the collision occurred. One, French aviation. Sgt. Jean Duchemin, the cadet in the plane, parachuted to safety. The cause of Capt. Mills’ death was not discov ered. W. B. Travelstead, who talked to the French cadet after he land ed, said the cadet told him a prop eller of the other T-28 in the flight tipped his wingtip, putting his plane into a high-speed stall. Capt. Mills’ plane crashed and exploded on the property of F. W. Falkner, a few hundred yards east of Highway 0. The instructor’s body was found near the burned area. Flying At 4,000 Dwight Huffman, sophomore IT major from Tivola, one eye-witness to the collision and crash, said the planes were flying formation at about 4,000 feet, when one swerved away from the other and went into a stall. Soon after the collision, a para chute appeared. Huffman said the plane crashed behind some trees, then 'a bright ball of fire and a cloud of smoke about 400-feet high showed up in the sky to the south of his van tage point. Pioneer Asks Increase In Air Mail Rates Military Ball Ducats Go on Sale SHADOW DANCE—Rosalyn Wilson, left, and Portia Blud- worth practice their complicated “shadow dance” which they will perform at the Intercollegiate Talent Show Friday night in Guion Hall. They will represent SMU. Fifty -Nine Yesterday Candidates for Student Filed Posts Fifty-nine students filed Wed nesday for the 34 positions in the general student election March 26. This is the largest number to file in one day so far this week. Filing, conducted in the Office of Student Activities, will be open until Friday, March 20. Candidates File One hundred and nine candi dates have filed so far this week. Those filing are as follows; Senior President—John Meams, Charles Gary and Pat Wood. Senior Vice - President — Roy Hickman and Lester Smith. , Senior Class Historian — Ed Stem, Joe Gillespie and Chuck Neighbors. Senior Yell Leaders—Jimmy Ty ree and Monty Montgomery. Senior STbeiaf Secretary-—Clan cy Woliver and Richard B. Black. Senior Class Senators Senior Class Senators—John C. Akard, E. L. Hensen, Roy Hick man, Ronnie Hudson, Edwin D. Lennert, Joe J. Jones, Lester Smith, Alan Spefje, Clancy Woli ver, Chuck Neighbors, Richard B. Black, B. F. Vance, Joe Braden, Ed Keeling, Arthur Raney, John Farrell, H. B. Zachry, Gene Kil gore, Robert Mousa, and Robert Manner. Senior Sergeant at Arms—Wil liam Curry and Charles Davis. Senior Class Agent — Gene Sparks. Junior President—Jim Baggely, Clarence Hatcher, Merrell Gaines, Cullen Davis, William Canon, Lamar Ashley, Jerry Ramsey and Dan Cleveland. Junior Vice-President Junior Vce-President — James Henderson, Allen Ezzel, Tullos Franks, Monte Curry, Howard Childers and Robert Rowland. Junior Historian — Thurman Johnson. Junior Social Secretary—Ron nie Greathouse, James Buchanan and Thomas Schmidt. Junior Secretai’y — Wallace Eversberg. Junior Student Senators—Monte Curry, Cullen Davis, Clarence James Dempsey, Gordon Tate, Ralph Benton, Fair Colvin, Ben ny Hinds, Taylor Greene, Joe E. King, Frank Ford, Dave Lane, Dick McCasland, Buck Isbell and Jerry K. Johnson. Junior Yell Leader—James Wil son, Sam McAnally, Bob Rober son, Joe Portivant, Sam Akard, R. B. (Dick) Tull and Glenn Lang-, ford. Junior Treasurer Junior Treasurer—Jim Mathis. Sophomore President — Clyde Adams and Jim Renick. Sophomore Vice - Pi^esident— Donald D. Swofford. Sophomore Recording Secretary — Bert E. Chinnock. A&M Veterans Believe Ag ■s Fail To Take Military Seriously Sophomore Social Seci’etary- Jan Broderick. Sophomore Treasurer — Frank Patterson. Sophomore Student Senator— Marion Williams, Frank Patterson, B. E. Chinnock and Donald D. Swofford. Sophomore Parliamentarian — Marion Williams. (See ELECTIONS, Page 5) Military Ball tickets are now on sale at $2.50 from unit supply sergeants and at the office of Student Activities, announced Jim Haney, ticket co-chairman. The Student Activities office, second floor Goodwin Hall, also has tickets at 75 cents each for a concert to be given prior to the dance in Guion Hall by Ralph Flannagan and his orchestra. Flanagan will move his band over to Sbisa Hall for the dance following the concert. The ball and concert are scheduled March 28. Attendance at the ball will be limited to students enrolled in ROTC, former students or stu dents who were members of the ROTC and faculty members who are reserve officers. Uniforms must be worn to be admitted, however, said Joe Mattei, general dance chairman. He urged cadets to purchase their tickets early because of the usual crowd which attends the ball; only a limited number are available this year. Special arrangements are being made to provide more dance space than in pi'evious years at the Military Ball, Mattei said. A full dress review parade is scheduled in the afternoon and a reception will be held by President M. T. Harrington in honor of the Military Day guests. The reception will follow the review and will be in the MSC. £ Faculty To Help Is Here Students ’ By JON KINSLOW Battalion News Staff A&M cadets do not take the military sezuous enough, said the majority of veteran students poll ed yesterday. Military policy at A&M should become more strict; the recent “crackdown” by the military de partment was a step forward to ward a firmer policy, they believe. “Everyone seems to think the military here is just a game,” H. B. Williford, freshman from Denison, said. “I think juniors and seniors should set a good ex ample for underclassmen.” The “crackdown” will do a lot of good, but it should have started long ago, he believes. Tighten Restrictions Tightening of restrictions by the military department would not help much, said H. J. Hunter, freshman from Odessa, a man can be pushed only so far, and then he will balk. “You have to furnish an incen tive to make them want to im prove their appearance,” Hunter said. “Give the cadet officers more responsibility because if you have good leaders you will have good followers*” Another freshman, M. M. Ste wart from Port Arthur, agrees the officers should have more respon sibility. “You have to make them understand the seriousness of the military,” he said. A “crackdown” is needed, but the bull ring is a waste of time, said T. H. Sellers, freshman from Marshall. He felt something moie constructive should be used as punishment, even if it is only dig ging ditches. Strictly Military “It’s a shame to have to use a board on grown men to get dis cipline,” Sellers said. “The corps should go strictly military and not just half way as it is now.” One veteran thinks the cadets are military enough. J. N. New man, from Garland, says the corps looks all right, but still the “crack down” might be a good idea. “If you are going to have mili tary, then hold to the regulations,” said J. E. Scott, junior from San Antonio. He feels the freshmen should be moved into the corps area. A. P. Goldberg, senior from Houston, also agrees the fresh men should be moved. He believes the military here is not taken ser iously enough. The deans of the schools yester day were asked for their isugges- tions on how to improve student- professor relations at A&M. The best way to better student- faculty relations is for the stu dents to realize that basically, the faculty is here to help the student in every way possible, said C. N. Shepardson, Dean of Agriculture. The students now believe that having conferences with faculty members is frowned upon by the student body, but the student will have to come to the faculty be fore these relations can be improv ed, Shepardson added. More Conferences Conferences, departmental cof fees, and invitations for instruct ors as well as profs to school dances and dinners in the dining hall will all add to bettering rela tions that are now strained in many departments on the campus, he said. An honor system would further student-prof relationships by lead ing to more discussion between students and professors about their homework and class assignments. This is the opinion of Dean H. W. Barlow of the School of En gineering. Inviting professors to more soc ial functions and to the mess hall and dormitory area would also help, Barlow added. Professors feel honored when invited to these occasions and it shows the stu dents are taking an interest in their professors. Student and faculty groups should work together to find the answer to better professor student relations, pioposes J. P. Abbott, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. An example would be close coop eration between the College Wide Committee and the Student Coun cil, he said. Students and professors must realize they are here for the same puipose if their relationship is to be improved, stressed John R. Ber trand, dean of the Basic Division. A spirit of co-operation must exist if A&M is to serve its pur pose which is to give Texas young men the best possible education, Bertrand contends. “Faculty and students must learn AG-PROF RELATIONS, Page 5) Based On AP Reports Pioneer Airlines asked the Civil Aeronautics Board CAB today for an emergency lump-sum mail pay ment of $846,000 and a $100,000 a month increase in its mail rate, to enable it to continue operating temporarily. Postmaster T. O. Walton of College Station said yesterday that rurtailing Pioneer Airline flights through College Station would ma terially affect air mail service lo cally. Going into effect immediately, ingoing and outgoing air mail will be both picked up and delivered at 3:52 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. each day, said Dr. Walton. Travis Cancels Senate Meeting; Fees Now Due THE STUDENT SENATE meet ing scheduled for tonight has been cancelled by Senate Presi dent Bob Travis because of the conflict with the TISA conven tion in Houston today, tomorrow and Saturday. THIRD INSTALLMENT fees must be paid at the fiscal depart ment by March 20, or a $1 per day penalty will be assessed. The $47.95 payment will cover board, room rent and laundry until April 20. BILL FLOYD will represent the Agronomy Society at the Cot ton Ball on April 24, said Dale Fischgrabe, president of the club. Floyd, a senior Agronomy major from Honey Grove, will escort Miss Jo Ann Kirkpatrick from Kingsville. O. D. BUTLER, former staff member at A&M, who has been gone two years on a general edu cation board fellowship, is com pleting his master’s degree at Michigan State College and will return to A&M June 1. Pioneer said, in two petitions filed with the board, it needs such aid pending a decision on a request for reconsideration of the board’s order of Friday setting Pioneer’s permanent rates for air mail. The company also asked permis sion, if the emergency temporary pay is granted, to suspend service temporarily on its Houston-Bryan- Temple-Austin and Abilene - San Angelo routes, to “minimize loss es” pending the board’s decision on the petition for reconsideration. Another Operator Oswald Ryan, chairman of the CAB, said he did not believe the suspension would be allowed, and if Pioneer is unwilling or unable to continue another operator will be designated. Pioneer said that if the board denies the emergency pay and the temporary suspension of service, or fails to act on those petitions, it wants authority to suspend opera tions temporarily over its entire system “to avert continuing losses pending a decision on the petition for reconsideration.” The board last week found that $1,000,500 is a reasonable aimual rate of compensation to Pioneer for handling mail after April 2, 1952. This is slightly less than the to tal payed during the year ending April 2, 1952, and is far below the amount the company had sought in view of its replacement of its en tire fleet of DC 3 planes with larger Martin 202 transports. 93 Laid Off Pioneer said in its petition today it has been forced by last Friday’s order to reduce its scheduled serv ice pattern by about one-third, to furlough temporarily 93 of its 450i employes, and to curtail advertis ing and other expenditures. The airline said it also has can celled one round trip daily between Houston and Dallas, Houston and Lubbock, Dallas and Midland-Odes- sa, and Houston and Austin, thus cutting 3,440 miles a day from its normal total of 10,638 miles a day. The company said that because of the board’s “extreme delay” in deciding its mail rate case. Pio neer’s working capital is “com pletely exhausted.” Collegiate 6 Best Ever Show Planned’ By ADRIAN YOUNGBLOOD Battalion News Staff The second annual Intercollegi ate Talent Show is the largest and best ever planned, said Miss Bet ty Bolander, MSC program consul tant yesterday. Twenty-six entertainers from seven Texas colleges and univer sities, selected by the MSC Music Committee on its recent audition four, will perform in the talent show. The 14 act event, emceed by Don Friend, sophomore from Brownwood, will be given in Guion Hall at 8 p. m., Friday March 20. North Texas Girls North Texas State College will send two acts to the show. One will be given by Helen Marshall, a singer of popular songs from BLOODMOBILE STAFF—Shown at the last Bloodmobile visit in December are (from left to right) Miss Kathleen Hardin, Red Cross nurse; Mrs. C. C. Doak, Mrs. Wendell R. Horsley, Mrs. Henderson Shuffler in background), an unidentified Red Cross nurse, and Mrs. Armstrong - Price. The Bloodmobile arrives Monday; donations will start Tues day. Students giving- blood above include Weldon Krueger, Joe Mattei, and Lee Phillips. Amarillo, who performed at last year’s sell-out talent show. An other act with Sain Price featured completes the NT personnel. She has toured as vocalist with both Frankie Master’s and Danny Dean’s orchestras, and was spec ial vocalist in the Balinese Room, Hotel Claridge, Memphis, Tenn., and in the Persian Terrace, Syra cuse Hotel, Syracuse, N. Y. Miss Price has made USO tours and appeared throughout the southwest in armed forces offi cer’s clubs, as well as on radio and TV. SMU will have three acts in the show. Tap dancing will be pre sented by Rosalyn Wilson from Coleman, and Portia Bludworth, Brownwood. They have been danc ing together seven years and will give a shadow tap dance together. Another act of modern jazz danc ing will be given by Billie Biggs from Fort Worth. “Jo” Newland, Venita, Okla., and Norman Bennett, Gainesville, will give their version of “Honey Bun,” an act from “South Pacific.” They have presented this act at the SMU Pigskin Review, USO camp shows to veterans’ hospitals in Fort Worth, Lisbon and Duncan ville, and were SMU representa tives in College Capers and Talent Show, held at SMU recently. Baylor’s representatives are Joe Liles, novelty musician from La Marque, who plays three mouth organs at one time and plays two different tunes on a piano at the same time, Charles Douglas, semi- classical baritone from Paducah, Ky., and Marjorie Hudgens, piano and comedy actress from Lufkin. From U of Texas Texas University will be repre sented at the show by three acts. Marilyn Bronson of Austin, who had the lead role in an Austin production, “Time Staggers On,” last year and who has her own radio show, will sing folk songs. Also representing UT will be Jim Huggins and Boys, instru- (See TALENT SHOW, Page 2