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—peculated Daily % ) 90 Per Cent Local Residents Jhe sweitei; The Battalion Published By 1 A & M Students For 75 Years , frsih Icokim 8: Volume 53 PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1953 Price Five Cents ird Candidates If School Views by )attle between two bobvd candidates, van foi' a bond issue, a public meeting A&M Consolidated 3y the Educational p ne meeting was call- ure "\‘h of the six candi- liaveasg to gi^’e his views on ns and issues. About . ended. ! ^‘ n, Ernest J. Redman long, h Williams are run- fine feather ection to the school , ou , favor the $385,000 ed by the present conditioning:; This 1 plan cedis for n.f a new high school, m, and repairs to 1 )t her Suit;ties. ; . rson and Charles J. also running for the sitions. They favor a 1 plan. Their plan lil newest uilding of a 10-room hool and repairs to & facilities. to Show s Models f inventions by Vinci will be pre- e MSG Art Gal- tee April 10 - 28, o Mrs. Emalita is sponsored by the Business Machines t includes models of ginated by da Vinci f)0 years ago, Mrs. are constructed from tches by Dr. Roberto da Vinci scholar, most widely known ngs of “Mona Lisa” f)per”, also was leam- every known branch of engineering and bd years ago da Vinci and building many ?d as modern today, are the air condition- parachute, hydraulic lie airplane and heli- 1 so invented a weight- nical clock, a triple- Igun, rotating bridge, liven ; car and many ionai'v devices. m- f ■■ l ? Ihedule Set ig Weekend of all college depart- begin their Easter lay and returning to lay, The MSC will not full-time basis dur- ,er holidays, lay schedule of the as follows: Friday Room will be closed and Fountain Room- p. m.; Bowling Alleys iom-9 a. m. to 12 p. m. Saturday >m-7 a. m. to 2 p. m. a. m£to 1 p. m.; the p, Fountain Room, ?ys and Game Room Sunday E. R. Alexander withdrew from the race yesterday. Also discussed was the “gentle man’s agreement” which in the past has given the rural areas aOjUal representation oili the school board. Redman and Williams now represent the Wellborn area on the school board. Anderson, Alex ander and Gorzycki all live in Col lege Station. Anderson said that he was run ning as a College Station repre- sentitive to the board, and that the other two men were running on a petition that has been signed by rural residents. “I do not represent a clique”, Anderson said “I do, however, re present a segment of the public whose sentiments are the same as mine.” Wellborn Speaks Williams said, “Speaking for the Wellborn residents, we protest taxation without representation.” Rural taxes provide 33 per cent of the school funds. City taxes provide 34 per cent, and utilities provide 33 per cent. The school board’s $385,000 plan would be financed by doubling the evaluation and cutting back the tax rate to give a 35 per cent tax increase. Speaking for the $150,000 plan, Anderson said, “I believe the im mediate need is for an elementary school. I will be for a high school when the need for one is proven to me.” The school board has decided that a new high school building, giving the present high school building to the lower grades, will best take care of the school pop ulation gi’owth for the future. A round of applause followed Bonnen’s statement that the school board has been working “four hours a night, two nights a week, for ten months on this plan”. A&M Free From Rules Hurting Okies The rules threatening to dis credit Oklahoma A&M scholasti cally and athletically do not apply to Texas A&M, n'ccording to Bar- low (Bones) Irvin, athletic di rector. Texas A&M is. a member of the National Collegiate Athletic As sociation, but: not the North Cen tral Association, which last year adopted an athletic reform pro gram. Therefore, the NCA’s pro posal to drop Oklahoma A&M from academic accreditation has no effect here. In co-operation with academic and athletic standards of the NC AA, Texas A&M supports four major sports, football, track, base ball and Basketball. Four minor sports here are tennis, swimming fencing and golf. The rifle and pistol teams are not considered as minor or major sports by the Southwest Conference. A $90,000 budget was set by the athletic department for full and part-time schlarships this year. The budget includes 141 full time scholarships. Full time scholar ships per sport are football 90, basketball 16, baseball 13, track 15, swimming three, golf two and tennis two. Longley Gone First Time In Two Years The College Station Kiwanis Club gave out pins for perfect attendence last Tuesday. Johnny Longley was to get a pin for two years perfect at tendence. There was just one catch— Longley wasn’t at the meeting. A&M to Host Judging Contest A&M will be host to the third annual area 3 livestock judging- contest for Texas Future Farmers of America to be held Saturday, April 18, said Henry Ross, professor of agricultural education and chair man of the College Committee on the Contest. Of the 87 schools and 93 teachers of vocational agriculture in area 3 the committee expects about 45 teams with 3 contestants each for all 5 contests to register Saturday morning. Each team will be ac companied by at least one teacher. The five contests will be Live stock judging, dairy cattle and dairy products judging, meats judging, poultry and eggs judg ing, and land judging. The supervisors for these con tests are G. L. Robertson, A. L. Darnell, A. V. Moore, J. C. Moffit, E. D. Parnell and Dennis Zahn. All except Zahn are Faculty mem bers. Zahn is a senior student in the Agricultural Education De partment. The various contests will be held in the new departmental centers across the railroad tracks, except the Land Judging Contest which will be held in the Agricultural Engineering lecture hall. The land judging contest is a comparatively new feature as it was initiated a year ago in the area 3 contests. It is the only con test not supervised by a faculty member. The area supervisors will set up classes, place them correctly and then grade the boys’ score cards. The top 10 per cent of the con testing teams will return for the state contest to be held two weeks later May 2. Area 3 is under the supervision of Mr. O. M. Hold. Skrabanek to Give Population Report Dr. R. L. Skrabanek of the agri cultural economics and sociology department will give a paper on recent population trends in the Southwest at the annual south western social service meeting in Dallas April 3 and 4. Several other members of the department are scheduled to take part in the program. In the agricultural economics section, Dr. L. P. Gabbard, head of the department, is scheduled to be chairman of a program on agri cultural policy. Dr. Tyrus R. Timm will pi-esent a paper on meeting the financial needs of farmers. Dan Russell of the rural sociol ogy department will be chairman of a session on sociology and soc ial work. frfOm-ll:30 a. m. to 2 ■ p.m. to 8 p.m.; Cof- V 'Ifid V{' ouritain Room, Bowl- * Ud Game Room will be ehasmes ^ Monday ”16. )m-7 a. m. to 2 p. m.; om-7 a. m. to 10:30 3. m6di$C 0 ff ee Shop Bowling Game Room will he -'hesteriif every y ie their m 1 " 1 2 P °st )f the three open pos- ing Chtf' College Station City be contested in the nd wotfP ctions Tuesda y> A P ril Ollt eV6f' er be running for against G. W. Black em. councilman. will be running unop- Vard One councilman J heegar will be running syytACl 01 ' councilman from fKAyN There will be no other } election. Chestf irily goi ; members of the Marion Pugh, A. P. Joe Sorrells. The terms and Major Ernest ill expire next year. NEWS BRIEFS Martin H. J. MARTIN JR., senior jour nalism student from Groesbeck, won first place in a rural journal ism contest sponsored by the Texas Gulf Press Association. Martin’s survey of “School News in the Community Newspaper,” won him a $100 cash award, a gold make-up rule and an all-ex penses paid trip to the Press As sociation’s convention in Beau mont April 10-11. The contest was open to juniors and seniors from Texas colleges offering a four-year curriculum in journalism. * * * ROGER Q. LANDERS, JR., a junior range and forestry major from Menard and Jim L. Renick, a freshman agriculture major from Llano, are winners of Danforth Fellowships awarded jointly by the Danforth Foundation and Ralston Purina Co. Wins The A&M students will attend a two-week leadership training con ference at Shelby, Mich., in Au gust. Selection of winners was based on scholarship, leadership, activi ties and general culture. A com mittee fi-om the School of Agri culture made the selection. * * * MISS JOANNA RICE, daughter of Mr. and & Mrs. H. C. Rice, of Tyler, Texas, has been selected sweetheart of the Texas A&M Singing Cadets. Joanna will represent the Sing ing Cadets as a duchess at the Cot ton Ball. Her escort will be Val H. Canon. * * * A PORTRAIT sketch of Carl Birdwell, manager of the A&M Exchange Store, appears on the cover of the spring issue of “The Alexander Pulls Out As Election Day Nears Academic Council Requests Acceptance of Honor Code The Academic Council issued the following proclamation in their meeting Tuesday: “WHEREAS the Student Engineers Council has proposed a scholastic honor system for the students at the A&M College of Texas, and “WHEREAS the Inter-Council Committee representing the Student Arts and Sciences Council, the Student Agricultural Council, the Student Engineers Council, and the Student Vet erinary Medicine Council, after serious consideration by their constituent societies, has recommended the adoption of this plan at this College, “THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Academic Council of this College commends those who have conceived and pro posed this plan and recommends its favorable consideration by the staff and students. TSCW Beauties Singing Stars Give Top Performance By JON KINSLOW Battalion News Staff One of the best amateur sing ing performances on the campus this year was given Tuesday by the Singing Stars of TSCW. With a program of modern, theatre, and folk music, the group presented a performance that was close to professional. Director John Murry Kendrick said he in cluded no sacred numbers because the chorus was formed mainly to sing for organizations that have no formal program. “We don’t try to give a well- rounded program,” Kendrick said. “We just entertain.” Combining tricky rhythms with difficult choral arrangements, the chorus sang with a professional quality. Their selections included “Alloutte”, “Inconstant Lover”, and “With A Song In My Heart.” Kendrick showed his musical ability by singing with the chorus on “The Night Is Young.” A song which seemed fitted to the slightly rude audience was “Donkey Serenade”. At times it was hard to tell whether the audience was more appreciative of the girls’ singing or their beauty. However, despite frequent cat calls and other noises, the chorus never lost its poise. The audience was complemented by one of the members of the chorus. Miss Anna Hartung of San Antonio said they were better than Aggies usually are. Vai’iety was put into the pro gram by Miss Jerry Horning. She sang “The Song Is You”, and “So In Love”. Although Miss Horn ing gave one of the best perform ances of,the evening, the audience failed to give her adequate re sponse. The Singing Stars could be call ed a collection of campus beauties. This was one of the many things the audience liked. “I have geen accused of choos ing good-looking girls and then making singers out of them,” Kendrick said. “It’s probably true.” After seeing the chorus, we agree. All considered, the performance was one of the best presented on the campus in a long time. Fifteen Men Accepted For Med School Fifteen A&M students have been accepted for medical or dental school after completing this semes ter’s work or after attending sum mer school sessions, said Dr. George Potter of the biology de partment. Twelve students will enter medi cal school and three plan to at tend dental school Several others may be accept ed by the first week in April, Dr. Potter said. Students and the schools they will attend are Ralph Rowe, Uni versity of Texas; Wilson Weather ford Southwestern; Allen Alfrey, Baylor; W. P. Singleton, Baylor; R. S. Curry, U. T.; and John Hal- sell, UT. Others entering medical school are John Hildedrand, UT; Don Hillard, Baylor; Bill Maddox, Bay lor; Joe Abell, Baylor; Charles Baker, Baylor; and Jack Jacobson, UT. The students entering dental school will attend the UT branch in Houston. They are Morton Krumholz, James Brosch and Charles Bruchmiller. $100 Contest College Store,” magazine of the National Association of College Stores. The cover illustration includes the rugged first sergeant which symbolizes A&M. A biographical background of Birdwell is also in the magazine. * * * DAIRY HUSBANDRY 326 class es made a tour of four dairy manufacturing plants Friday. Fac ulty members who made the trip were Dr. I. W. Rupel, Dr. Isaac Peters and Dr. A. V. Moore of the dairy department. * * AGRICULTURAL ADMINIST RATION students made an inspec tion trip to Houston Monday through Wednesday. Professor Harley Bebout ac companied the 14 students during the tour. Only six students of the Agricultural Administration De partment were unable to attend the trip. * * * TWO RESEARCH grants total ing $4,250 have been received by the Texas Agi’icultural Experiment Station, said Dr. R. D. Lewis, di rector. Lederle Laboratories Division of the American Cyanimid Com pany, Pearl River, N. Y., through Director Dr. Benjamin W. Carey, renewed a $4,000 grant-in-aid for support of research in the effect of antibiotics on the nutrition of chickens and turkeys. Merck & Co. Inc. of Rahway, New Jersey, through R. G. Bailey, has given a grant of $250 for ex penses in connection with experi mental cultivation of Dioscora at the Weslaco sub-station during 1953. Building Issue To Draw Voters E. R. Alexander of College Station yesterday withdrew from the A&M Consolidated School Board race. He announc ed his decision in a letter to Ewing Brown, president of the A&M Consolidated School Board. Saturday is election day for three new school trustee mem bers. Balloting will be in the Consolidated music room from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Three present board members are in the race whose terms expire this year. They are C. A. Bonnen, Ernest J. Redman and Milton Williams. Two other candidates, D. A. Anderson and Charles J. Gorzycki, are running. In Alexander’s letter to Brown announcing his withdrawal, 4 he said, in part; “In the interest of harmony and fair play I am withdrawing as a candidate for a place on the A&M Consolidated School District Board of Education. “I hope my decission will help in some measures to reduce the misunderstanding and bitterness which has grown out of our efforts to arrive at a satisfactory and workable plan to provide adequate school plan facilities.” Heated controversy over the school building program and fin ancing is expected to bring out almost all of the 1,100 qualified voters of the district, including a large turn out from the rural areas. Because of the holidays, absentee balloting has been heavy. Absentee ballots are available through to day in the office of Consolidated Principal J. J. Skrivanek, absentee ballot clerk. Balloting will be in the Con solidated music room from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Sam Cleland will be election judge, with Mrs. C. H. Williams and Mrs. J. G. Holmes as clerks. Candidates opinions on the school building program have caus ed voters to divide into two camps. The three men up for re-election favor the $385,000 plan proposed by the school board, calling for a new high school, a physical edu cation room for Lincoln School for Negroes, and repairs to the pre sent plant. The other three candidates have suggested a $150,000 plan which would call for the building of a 10 room elementary school and repairs to the present high school and to Lincoln School. Several statements and petitions have been circixlated by all sides in the matter giving their stands. In a statement mailed to all eligible voters, those supporting Bonnen, Redman and Williams ac cused the new candidates of violat ing a “gentleman’s agreement” which in the past has given the rural areas equal representation on the school board. The agreement was that the Wellborn area would be allowed two representitives, the Peach Creek area one, one from each of the three sections of College Sta tion, and one member-at-large. Before last year, names were put on the ballot according to the areas the candidates represented. This year, as last year, the names will all be put together, with the three men receiving the highest number of votes winning. Anderson and Gorzycki live in College Station. Redman and Wil liams represent Wellborn on the present school board. Residents of the Wellborn area have passed a petition requesting that Redman and Williams be kept on the school board. Also circulated was a statement from Alexander, Anderson, and Gorzycki, giving their plan for the 10-room elementary school. They said that they believe it is unwise to double the tax eavlua- tion, as the school board has voted to do. The school board will cut back the tax rate after the evaluation raise, making a tax increase of be tween 35 and 40 per cent. The other plan calls for a tax increase of about 33 per cent. Dogs Need Vaccination, City Policeman Warns All dog owners should have their dogs vaccinated for rabies and ob tain a city license to prevent their dogs from being impounded, said C. E. Bullock, College Station city potrolman. Wellborn Area Asks Support Of Local Voters A petition signed by 120 re sidents of the Wellborn and Peach Creek areas was circu lated recently advocating “a gentleman’s agreement” whereby representatives from Wellborn and Peach Creek serve on the A&M Consolidated District School Board. The petition invited friends from College Station to keep the agree ment by re-electing E. J. Redman and Mitt Williams to the board. Both Redman and Williams repre sent Wellborn. The petition read: “Since the consolidation of the rural school district with A&M Consolidated District, a gentle men’s agreement has been in exis- tance whereby , representatives from Wellborn and Peach Creek served on the School Board of the A&M Consolidated School District. “In the past, Wellborn has had two representatives serve on the board. We would like to make clear that the people of the rural area do unanimiusly support the candidacy of E. J. Redman and Mitt Williams for re-election of the school board of the A&M Con solidated District. “We invite our friends of Col lege Station who have always dealt fairly with us in the past to join us in keeping this gentlemen’s agreement by returning these two competent representatives from the rural community to the school board.” Personnel Group Plans Field Trip Students enrolled in personnel policies and procedures will visit several firms in Houston April 9, for the purpose of reviewing and inspecting their personnel depart ments. Each semester students enroll ed in this class plan a project to acquaint their personnel policies and procedures of different com panies in the United States. This field trip is the first phase of a project undertaken by students in the current semester. Weather Today SPRING SHOWERS WEATHER TODAY — Drizzle or light rains possible. Thunder storm activity to north and north east. Light winds up to 15 mph.