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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.