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COLLEGE STATION (Agrgieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1953
Price Five Cents
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at breakfast
tonday, said Lt.
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not be required to
een reveille and re-
days. Ties must be
eat, Saturday after-
jSunday, and at all
ie uniform is worn
■pose [of this order
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Day students going-
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uniform Monday,
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use, a short coat, a
and pink or green
must be cleaned
lefore turning them
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led Kids
al Clinic
pril 13
annual College sta-
}hildren’s Clinic will
3 in Sbisa Hall, said
ill, chairman of the
3 crippled childrens
' i been changed from
recommendation of
d of Health, he said,
vhich begins a 8 a.
are of children from
• m, Robertson, Madi-
id Washington coun-
from other counties
t it is primarily for
ks, Russell said,
u will examine the
erbert Hipps of the
Idrens Hospital in
B. Eggess, H. N.
Kenneth Ainsworth,
l .e Medical School in
men are top flight
■"ussell said.
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UP SHE GOES — Work began this week on reconstruc
tion of the watertower’s sides, after a week spent tearing
down the rusted sides. J. K. Walker, B&CU superintend
ent, estimated that the work would be finished in two
weeks, with good weather. Ted Welk Contractors is hand
ling the job. The tower will hold 154,000 gallons when fin
ished. !
Ceremony Held
For Dedicating
New Buildings
A ceremony of dedication
and a luncheon were the feat
ures yesterday at the dedica
tion of the Gibb Gillhrist En
gineering Library and the En
gineering Building.
Speakers for the dedteattph an d
luncheon traced the history of
engineering work at A&M and
gave sketches of Chancellor Gibb
Gilchrist’s life. The ceremony wa§
irv front of the .new engineers lib
rary. The luncheon was at 12:15
in the MSC.
Speakers for.the dedication were
Tyi'ee Bell, former member of the
Boai-d of Directors; President M.
T. Harrington; Carl L. Svenson,
executive director of the State
Board of Registration for Profes
sional Engineers; and T. C. For
rest, president of the National So
ciety of Professional Engineers.
Luncheon speakers were A. F.
Smiley Mitchell, former Students
president and former chairman of
the State Board of Registration
for Professional Engineers; and
Col. Willard Chevalier, executive
vice-president of McGraw Hill Pub
lishing Company.
. cores First, Second
iangular Speech Meet
i of Texas students
second in the annual
peaking contest of
ciety of Mechanical
ter Today
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SHOWERS
t TODAY: Possibly
igh yesterday was 81
this morning was 65.
Engineers held here this week.
Rice Institute was third.
Calvin L. R. Barker’s speech on
“Rocket Motor” won first. Second
place winner was Gene C. Walker.
He spoke on “The Development of
Electromagnetic Pump.” Third
place went to Rice’s I. Merrill
Singer who spoke on “Principles of
Safety Valves.”
The first three places in the
contest wei’e awarded one year’s
dues to the senior society of the
ASME, and all contestants receiv
ed KOE pocket slide rules.
Two Students
Judges for the meet were two
students and one faculty member
from each school.
The teams were participating in
the contest to prepare for the Re
gional meet April 13-15 in New
Orleans.
Prof. J. George TL Thompson, of
the A&M ME department, pre
sented Prof. C. J. Shumaker, cur
rent vice-president of the region
eight of ASME, with bronze book-
ends. The honorary chairman and
studenet chairman of the contest
was given aluminum ash-trays.
The bookends and ash - trays
were made in the school foundry.
A&M Names
Men To Take
Rodeo Tour
Teams to represent A&M in in
tercollegiate rodeos at West Texas
State Collegiate and Oklahoma
A&M April 9-11, were chosen
Tuesday night by the Aggie Rodeo
Club.
A separate team was chosen for
each show because of the conflict
ing dates.
Aggie rodeoers who will make
the trip to the three-day Oklahoma
Aggie show are Bobby Rankin.
Jim Watson, Lewis Rice, Vergil
Patrick, James Dickey and Joby
Connell.
The other team, composed of J.
W. McDonald, Billy Steele, Bud
dy Fincher, Joe Lloyd, R. S. Hig
gins and Jack Custer, will com
pete in the West Texas State Ro
deo April 10-11, at Amarillo.
Both Aggie teams will be con
testing for points which will count
toward the determination of the
top ten collegiate teams in the
nation.
These ten teams will compete in
the championship show at Hardin-
Simmons University in Abilene
May 14-16.
Armed Forces Get
17 Men From Here
Seventeen men from the College
Station-Bryan area will report for
induction to the Armed Services
April 2.
Thirty more are ordered to re
port for preinduction physical ex
aminations on April 1.
The Texas draft quota for May
of 2,823 was announced recently
by State Selective Service Di
rector Paul L. Wakefield. This will
enable local boards to examine 19-
year-olds and to induct men as
young as 19 years, four months.
The new quota for Bryan Local
Board No. 13 will be mailed April
7.
Flanagan to Play
Saturday Concert
Ralph Flanagan and his orches
tra will play a concert in Guion
Hall Saturday at 7:30 p. m., said
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business
manager of Student Activities.
The popular dance band will
feature novelty numbers as well as
current hits on their program.
Tickets are available at 75 cents
each at the office of Student Act
ivities, second floor, Goodwin Hall,
or may be purchased at the door,
said Hardesty.
The orchestra will move to Sbisa
Hall following the concert to play
for the Military Ball, he added.
Cadet Corps Featured
In W eekend Program
Combat Men Dance
In MM. Sbisa’ Tonight
Fatigues, helmet liners and com
bat boots are the uniform tonight
as combat men dodge howitzers,
machine guns, and other armament
to dance with their girls at the
annual Combat Ball.
Staged by members of the first
Regiment, cadets in Infantry,
Armor, Artillery and Anti - Air
craft Artillery will give their ver
sion of a dance under battle con
ditions.
Dates will not be required to
wear the combat uniform. SOP
calls for peasant blouses, skirts,
and low-heeled shoes.
Aggies to Play
The Aggieland Orchestra plays
for the Ball in Sbisa starting at
9 p. m.
Seniors of other branches and
fi’eshmen in the combat arms with
dates will be admitted if in pi’oper
uniform, said Bob Carpenter, pub
licity co-chairman. Tickets will sell
for $1.50 at the door.
“Combat Cuties” of the First
Regiment will be chosen at the
dance said Carpenter. Four beau
ties will be picked from the dance
floor for the honor.
The girls will receive battle
worn helmet liners as souveniers
of the occasion, he added.
Faculty As Immigrants
Faculty and guests other than
military personnel are to dress as
immigrants, said Jack Reynolds,
publicity co-chairman. They should
wear old clothes, especially old
suits and black bow ties, he added.
Military personnel will be admitted
if wearing the same uniform as
students.
Cadets are to wear outfit brass
oh each lapel of the fatigue jump
er.
Decorating for the ball began
early this morning, but students
are still needed to finish the job,
said Carpenter and Reynolds.
They asked students of combat
arm units to stop by Sbisa this
afternoon to assist with final dec
orations.
The decorations will include how
itzers, mines, recoiless rifles,
machine guns, and sidearms to
transform the dance floor to “Fort
Sbisa.”
Senior Students Begin
Spring Field Trips
Senior field trips begin this
week when 12 students of the
horticulture department went to
Stephenville to observe processes
concerned with the breeding of
nursery stock.
The annual field trips are in
spection tours made by most sen
iors to look over different business
set-ups operating in their major
fields.
The agricultural administration
field trip begins Monday and lasts
until April 1. The Farm Credit
Administration, the Second Nation
al Bank, and several manufactur
ers of agricultural products are
tenatively listed on the itenerary,
said J. Wheeler Barger, head of
agricultural economics department.
Sixty Industrial education sen
iors will be split into two groups
for their annual field trip. One
group will visit industrial plants
and schools in Houston and the
other will visit similar establish
ments in the Dallas and Fort
Worth area.
Approximately 30 agricultural
engineering seniors will make a
Top Speaker Set
For Wesley Group
Muriel Lester, one of the most
outstanding religious speakers in
the world, will speak at 7.30 p. m.
Monday in the A&M Wesley
Foundation, said Robert Sneed, di
rector.
Miss Lester’s talk, “Whgt is
Man—Brute, Machine or Saint?”,
is being sponsored by Episcopalian,
Disciple, Presbyterian, YMCA and
Methodist religious organizations.
The entire community, regard
less of race or creed is invited to
attend, Sneed said.
Her Tenth Visit
Miss Lester is currently touring
the United States on her tenth
visit.Her tour is under the aus
pices of the Internationl Fellow
ship of Reconciliation and the
American Friends Service Commit
tee.
Miss Lester first became inter
ested in religious work in 1907
when she became a convinced paci
fist through reading Tolstoy’s
book, “The Kingdom of Heaven is
Within You.”
In 1915, she founded Kingsley
Hall, a social, educational, and re
ligious center where barriers of
class, color and creed were not re
cognized.
During the “Battle of Poplar”,
she was made Alderman of Poplar
Borough Council with George Lan-
sbury and Susan Lawrence.
Miss Lester was a close friend
of the late Mahatma Gandhi, and
entertained him at Kingsley Hall
during the ten weeks of the second
Round Table Conference held at
St. James Palace in 1931. In 1934,
she traveled with him throughout
India during his tour of the earth
quake regions in Bihar and his
anti-untouenability tour.
Round-the-World Trip
Six round-the-world tours have
been made by Miss Lester and she
has visited Japan and China five
times. She has traveled throughout
Latin America, and once was taken
off her boat in 1934 at Trinidad
and kept in an internment camp
for ten weeks.
She is the co-founder with Doris
Lester of the Children’s House.
This was the first nursery school
and first graded Sunday School
in the East End of London.
Since World War II, Miss Lester
has spent many weeks in Europe,
Japan, Australia, New Zealand,
India, Ceylon, , Pakistan, South
Africa and Kenya.
Muriel Lester
Next Blood Drive
Set for May 12-13
Brazos county’s next Blood-
mobile drive will be during Na
tional Armed Forces Week May
11 - 15, said Lee J. Phillips student
chairman.
The Bloodmobile will be in Bryan
on May 11, on the campus May 12
and 13 and at Bryan Air Force
Base May 14 and 15. The quota for
each day is 250 pints, Phillips said.
It is hoped that this drive will
top the other two, added Phillips.
Distinguished Guests
Arrive at 6 p.m. Today
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
A&M shows off its military manpower this weekend be
fore a host of distinguished guests which will arrive on the
campus this afternoon.
An Air Force B-17 will land at Easterwood Airport at 6
p. m. bringing congressmen and top military men to attend
A&M’s gala observance of Military Day scheduled tomorrow.
Climaxed with the Military Ball Saturday, it will be the
biggest program in Military Day history. Guests will include
some of the most noted military men in the United States.
Plans were completed today for televising the corps re
view Saturday, said Bishop Clements of the College Informa
tion Office. The television will be over station WBAP, Fort
Worth.
Warren Ferguson of Houston, of
the WBAP staff, will do the tele
vising.
Arriving from Washington this
afternoon aboard the Air Force
plane will be Congressman Olin
E. Teague of College Station, rank
ing visitor. He will be accompani
ed by Texas Rep. Lloyd M. Bent-
sen, of McAllen, a reserve Air
Force Lt. Colonel who led 50 mis
sions over Germany during World
War II and Rep. James P. S.
Devereux of Maryland, Devereux
is a retired Marine Corps Brig.
General who gained fame in de
fense of Wake Island where he was
captured by the Japanese.
Col. Francis S. Gabreski, top
living US Air Force ace, also will
arrive this afternoon at Bryan
AFB for the weekend events.
Other visitors include Lt Gen.
Anthony C. McAulif e, Army de
puty chief of staff for personnel,
world famous for his reply of
“nuts” to a German order to sur
render when his force was sur
rounded at Bastone in World War
IPs Battle of the Bulge.
Also arriving from Washington
are Maj. Gen. Norris B. Harbold,
director of training for the Air
Force and Mj. Gen. Walter E.
Todd, commander of the Western
Air Defense Force.
Stag Dinner Planned
The visitors will be feted at a
stag dinner given in the MSC to
night by President M. T. Harring
ton.
Program for Saturday begins
with a luncheon given in honor of
the guests by Colonel of the Corps
Weldon Kruger. Scheduled in Sbisa
Hall Banquet Room at 12:15 p. m.,
the luncheon will be attended by
(See MILITARY DAY, Page 2)
field trip to the lower Rio Grande
Valley Monday through Wednes
day to inspect ii'rigation, drain
age, and soil conservation prac
tices in that area.
The mechanical engineering field
trip also will be split into two
groups. Beginning Monday the
group going south will visit the
Houston and Freeport area, while
the northbound group will visit
Waco, Dallas and Fort Worth.
Both groups will see various types
of manufacturing and phases of
industry.
Six Filings Made
For School Board
Six people have filed for posi
tions on the A&M Consolidated
School Board of Trustees. New
comers are E. R. Alexander, 1119
Ashburn E; D. A. Anderson, 1202
Foster E; and Charles J. Gorzycki,
107 Highway 6 N.
Three positions are open on the
school board. Members whose
terms are up this year and have
refiled are C. A. Bonnen, Ernest J.
Redman Jr., and Milton Williams.
Today is the deadline for filling.
The election will be April 4, at
Consolidated’s music room.
“I expect more people to file
before the deadline us up,” said
Superintendent L. S. Richardson.
“They usually wait until the last
minute.”
Persons expecting to be out of
town on election day may mark
absentee ballots on Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday or Thursday of
next week at Consolidated school.
Six Add Names
To Election Filings
Only six candidates for class
and student organization offices
had filed by late yesterday the
first day filings were re-opened.
Those candidates already ap
proved are noj; required to refile.
The candidates are as follows:
Non-Military Representative to
the Athletic Council — Charles D.
Beagle and Bill Stalter.
Sophomore President — W. Paul
Holladay.
Sophomore Recording Secretary
—Don Powell.
Junior Treasurer — Jimmy B.
Wendland.
Junior Social Secretary — Bill
(Spook) Shepard.
Painters Will Have
To Pay for Damage
The unit that painted the roof
of the golf shop will have to pay
$250 for the damage done, said
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Disciplinary action will be taken
against 21 members of the unit,
Davis said.
“The action was a violation of
college regulations and caused
damage to state property”, he said.
Davis refused to disclose the unit’s
name.
The unit’s insignia, a large letter
C and a cannon, was painted on the
slate roof of the building in red,
yellow and black paint.
State Tax Deadline
Set for April 30
Thursday, April 30, is the dead
line for Brazos County residents
to render their property for state
ad valorem tax purposes.
Late renditions loose the right
to claim the homestead exemption
for their home. The homestead ex
emption amounts to 72 cents per
$100 evaluation, up to $3,000.
Also, late renditions will be sub
ject to a fine of one dollar, and
and increase in evaluation of one
half per cent for each month late.
Tuesday, March 31, is the dead
line for College Station residents
to render property for city tax
purposes.
The City Board of Equalization
will meet March 30 to evaluate
property not rendered.
Property for city taxes is re
ndered at the College Station City
Hall. Rendering for state tax is
done at the county courthouse in
Bryan.
Lucian Morgan
Gets Lions Prexy
Lucian Morgan, has been elected
Lions Club president for 1953-54.
Other officers elected were vice
presidents Herb Thompson, A. A.
Lenert and John Milliff; secretary,
John O’Neill, assistant secretary,
J. J. Sckrivanek and treasurer, J.
B. Lauterstein.
Tail twister, Jones Ramsey as
sistant tail twister, Howard Weav
er, lion tamer, Mac Prescott as
sistant lion tamer, Bob Darwall,
two-year term,directors, Beau Bell
Fred Jaggi one year term di
rectors, Charlie Hass and W. L.
Paulson.