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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1953
Price Five Cents
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Student
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SC.
ie Crash Kills
Instructor
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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
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I'he n« ,it while flying a
Jiiicipn according to in-
1 be he! V ed from two eye-
mishap.
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aining. H
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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
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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