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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Published By
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For 75 Years
51: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1953
Price Five Cents
yan
IE BATT.
1GE
-4 Commander
•pended For
rsical Hazing
r anding officer of A
my Security Agency,
|!eth of Kerrville, re-
l)PCt indefinite suspension
the faculty panel
m of “bluebook” par-
ITUTE F ’ | e 44, t ^ ie “hnz-
XO ATTL by college officials
— YOU iWhen an ASA sopho-
'i f 'ound to have been
case was begun by
r pY7 pj.nvestlgating officers,
I I 51; E. Davis, comman-
i/'n ts -
* f IL lore was reoommend-
icers to be suspended,
However, Seth con-
lere at Die had liazed the cadet
Zllbik’s-had a “board” in hisl
of the offenses make
II 'ble to automatic sus-
. of Seth’s confession,
I)S tO h’s penalty was re-
* uspension to military
probation and trans-
\ r S OF A-milita ry dormitory.
lied the findings of
ing officers to a fac-
I ^ ^ Se0 ° 1U ^ eC * °^~
^ hours of graduating,
r |\ *1 'P'y f‘>r re-entry in
I ullOrSirst slimmer semester
Davis said.
Dr his re-entry must
; Dean of Men, Davis
sal of two juniors in January.
Their case was brought to light
nearly three months after their
offense by a letter to a dormitory
counselor from a parent.
Steering: Committee to Ask
&
Abolishment of ‘Fish’ Area
Main
Gate
;r, executive officer
icting commander in
tment of a new com-
S?
e third time during
chooljyear that stu-
en involved in physi-
Phe first resulted in
? of B Company Ar-
dence of hazing was
ber last fall,
unit’s personnel was
1 the bi? other army compa-
;ause you seniors were reduced
10W and: vate.
ying [instance of hazing in
alogue pr't cauKr ' ( l the dismis-
ig usyoiif" #
npiTis
Yesterday
Crash
ange
ne
‘ XasAK ' :ie B. Seale, head
sration.s at A & M,
E. Harris, junior
gor from Dallas,
d yesterday in a
approximately six
College Station, off
;ay 6.
eale, the two were
•yan Air Force Base
series of oridnta-
iow being given to
3 students.
T the crash was at-
Igine Ifailure. Seale
s-up,j forced landing
lane hit an obscured
field, Seale’s shoul-
ips broke and he was
ft the plane’s dash-
Sported to have
|1 cut! above one eye
il slash across the
• in Bryan AFB hos-
js and observation. 1
lived a minor cut
eye. He was not
PERUVIAN ENTOMOLOGY STUDENT—Pedro Araoz of
Peru and Louis Gorzycki of the local Bureau of Entomol
ogy and Plant Quarantine, U S D A, study the effects
of pre-treating seeds with insecticides to provide ingrown
protection against insect attack.
NEWS BRIEFS
Agenda Not Named
By Student Senate
THE STUDENT SENATE will appointed by the State Depart
meet in th'e Senate room of the
MSC at 7;30 tonight.
Agenda for the meeting has not
been announced, said Bennie Zinp,
assistant to the dean of men and
staff advisor to the Senate.
* * *
A PUPPET SHOW emphasizing
dental health will be given tomor-
row at 8:3f) a. m. at A&M Con
solidated Elementary School. The
show, “Jack’s Friend, Herbert”, is
sponsored by the State Department
of Health, Dental Health Division.
The free show is open to parents
and pre-school children.
* * *
DR. BARDIN H. NELSON of
the agriculture economic and so
ciology department spoke Tuesday
night on “The Personality and De
velopment of the Child” to the
Dames Club in the YMCA. Mrs.
Juanita Willis and Mrs. Jo How
ard were hostesses.
The date of the annual spring
picnic was set for April 25 this
year. Dames Avho are not members
of the local club may attend.
Dame's Club pins will be ordered
at the next meeting on April 21.
* * *
EARL McCHESNEY, ’43, one
time resident of Del Rio, has been
wj§ent Concession
Ends May
pplying for conces|
1953-54 school year
May 1 if considera-
" BE A RW^iven in the May as-
nerica’s Bennie A. Zinn,
•ading aP of men for student
Camels ha\
.blanks can be secur-
erswaD %l. Robert Melcher,
Dol, coolf* (Basic Division
ack! Try6 O. Murray Jr., 105
how mild Non-Military Area),
-hlvenioyit rles Taylor, Guard-
, , ory 12, (Corps Ar-
y smoke!
ms committee, which
e above counselors,
J1 ston- S al«^TP licat 1 i ° nS a, T Ki
-elected on May 15,
do not submit ap-
ecified may present
time for considera-
nmittee, Zinn said.
Concessions usually approved
are: floral (Landscape Arts Club),
broom and mop, stationery, floor
waxing, Christmas cards, photo
graphs, magazine subscriptions
(agents for Walter Johnson and
Mrs. J. T. L. McNew).
Approved Concessions
Sign canvas (YMCA Cabinet),
newspaper routes, tennis racket
restringing, Aggie towels, candy
(given by Student Activities Of
fice), Aggie dolls and Aggie unit
mugs, Zinn said.
The following concessions will
not be approved: food, clothing,
and pressing pick up, and books,
instruments, and school supplies.
Concessions not listed by the con
cessions committee will be con
sidered and approved if the item
or service is found to fill a real
need of a large group of students
at a fair price, Zinn added.
ment’s International Information
Administration as its contact man
in Washington, D. C.
The Voice of America, comes
undgf the HA as do the Fulbright
scholarships, overseas libraries
and motion picture and press ope
rations.
Two hundred and fifty members
of the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce are expected to attend
the group’s 27th annual meeting
April 13-14 in the MSC, said H. E.
Burgess, vice-president and chair
man of the arrangements commit
tee.
The theme of the meeting spon
sored by the College Station and
Student --Prof
Banquet Set
In MSC April 14
The student-professor ban
quet sponsored by the Press
Club will be held April 14, in
the MSC Ball Room said Joel
Austin, chairman of the exe
cutive committee of the Press
Club.
The purpose of the banquent is
to improve student-professor re
lations, he said.
The program will consist of a
buffet style dinner with entertain
ment provided by the staffs of the
Engineer, Agriculturalist, Com
mentator, Southwestern Veteri
narian, Aggieland and Battalion.
The annual Battalion awards to
college staff members will also be
presented, Austin said.
Members of the student publica
tions staff will escort members of
the college staff to the banquet.
Other students wishing to attend
may purchase tickets foi' $2.50
from the editor of any student
publication.
All students attending are re
quested to bring a member of the
college staff, Austin said.
if!Group Flans Revision
’ Of College Regulations
By JERRY BENNETT’
Battalion Managing Editor
A reorganization of the Corps of Cadets, which would
do away with the present Third Division will be proposed for
next year, said Fred Mitchell, cadet sergeant major of the
corps.
The proposal will be made by a steering committee for
corps policy for 3 953-54, Mitchell said. The steering com
mittee is composed of 15 members of the junior class.
Mitchell made the announcement at 12:30 p.m. today
at a first sergeants’ meeting in the lounge of Dormitory 10.
Joe Abell, sergeant major of the Third Division simultane
ously' announced the proposal at a first sergeants’ meeting
in the Third Division area.
• The present Third Division is
where the freshman members of
the corps are housed. The housing
area commonly is tenned the
“New-New Dormitory ai*ea” or
“Fisly Area.”
“The purpose of this committee
is to recommend to college authori
ties a Corps of Cadets policy for
1953-54 which will result in an
improvement of the college toward
a greater A&M,” Mitchell explain
ed.
The proposal, concerning the
Third Division, is one of three
methods with which the committee
feels, at this time, the improve
ment can be accomplished, he said.
Three Methods
Mitchell listed the three methods
as follows:
1. “A revision of present Col
lege Regulations as needed at this
time.
2. “An investigation to better
relations with incoming transfer
students.
3. “A reorganization of the
Corps of Cadets whereby members
of the freshman, sophomore, jun
ior and senior classes will be in
cluded in each unit throughout the
entire corps.”
Investigation of this corps reor-
;ganization is being carried on by
the committee in five general cat
egories, Mitchell said. These are:
W Military,
# Academic,
Morale,
© Student activities,
® The effects on the present
Third Division.
College Authorities
Upon completion of the commit
tee’s investigation, its findings
will be submitted to college author
ities for their consideration, he
explained. The committee has been
working for two months, Mitchell
said.
Members of the steering com
mittee are T. B. Field, president
of the junior class; V. M. Mont
gomery, junior yell leader; James
Tyree, junior yell leader; B. K.
Boyd, corps athletic sergeant; J.
K. Goode, corps operations ser
geant; C. B. Sterzing, sergeant
major of the First Division.
John Akard, sergeant major of
the second division; Joe Abell; R.
F. Sullivan, sergeant major of the
First Regiment; John Hildebrand,
sergeant major of the Second Reg
iment; Ronald Cheves, sergeant
major of the Thii-d Regiment; C.
A. Gary, sei’geant major of the
Fii’st Wing; Lari'y Hoffman, ser
geant major of the Second Wing;
Phillip Jacobs, sergeant major of
the Third Wing; and Mitchell.
Generalized AS
Planned for AF
Seniors ’53 - 54
Senior AFROTC students
will take the generalized Air
Science curriculum previously
scheduled to apply only to un
derclassmen, said Maj. J. C.
Lowell, operations officer.
The generalized course will be
gin next September.
Seniors will take during the first
semester courses in elements in
aerial photography, careers in the
air force, and. air ocean wax-fare,
which consists of tax-gets, aircx*afts,
and weapons.
The second part will consist of
the air foi’ce commander and staff,
problem solving techniqxxe, commu
nication and air fox-ce corx-espon-
dence, and military law axxd their
courts axxd boards.
The curriculum was intx-oduced
because the Air Force does not
think it can specialize a maix in a
certain field while he is .still in
college, Lowell said.
These changes in the curriculum,
necessitated the publishing of new
Air Force text books. A new se
ries of aids sxxch as films, models,
chax-ts and graphs are also being
planned to help the studexxts.
East Texas C of C Sets
Annual Conference in MSC
Bryan Chamber of Commerce, will
be “Wox-king for Soxxnd Practice
in Government and Business”.
Speakex-s and their topics will be
Art Briese of Hot Spi’ings, Ax-k.,
humorist; Hines H. Baker of Hous
ton, president of Hxxmble Oil and
Refining Company “The Texas Re
search League;” Mrs. Max-y D.
Cain, Summit, Miss., “A One-Wo-
xxxau Rebellion.”
Other Speakers
Ceasax- (Dutch) Hohn of Inde
pendence, “Fuix and Philosophy;”
Bryan Blaylock of Marshall, “Agri-
cxxlture, Challange and Opport-
uxxity;” DeWitt C. Greer of Austin,
“State Highway Needs;” axxd John
D. McCall of Dallas, “Water Con
servation Laws.”
The sessions of the group be
gin April 12 with a smorgasboi'd
dinner for the officers axxd direct-
Customs to Govern
Wearing of Ring
Wearing of the senior ring will
be left to cxxrrent student customs
and policies, the ring committee
decided yestex-day.
The decision clarified the com
mittee’s stand on whether or not
students taking junior privileges
can weax- the ring.
Joe Mattel, president of the sen
ior class, followed the committee’s
decision by statixxg cxxstoms al
ready established allow only stu
dents who have senior pxdvileges to
wear the senior xlng.
The xdng committee met to de
cide on new x-equirements to per
mit purchase of the ring because
academic x-egulations concex-ning
classifcation of seniors have been
changed.
Coxmcil Established
The Academic Council establish
ed a policy March 31 that senior
classification wovxld be given all
students upoxx completion of 95
sexxxester houi’s, i*egardless of
their coxxrse of study. Formerly
the regulation allowed senior
classification aftex* completing all
but eight of the semester houx-s
prescribed thx-ough the sixth se
mester. An equal xxunxber of grade
points is called for in both cases.
The nxxmber of hours to classify
vax-ied under the old rule accox-d-
ing to the number of hours neces-
Cotton Council
VP to Crown
Cotton King
Cotton Ball King- Harold
Scaief will be crowned at the
Ball April 24 by Albert Rus
sell, assistant to the execu
tive vice president of the Cot-
toxx Council of America, announced
Clarence Watson, Agronomy so
ciety advisor and Cotton Pageant
and Ball sponsor.
Said Glenn Black, social secre
tary for the Agx-onomy Society.
Plans for the Pageant axxd Ball
ax - e well undex-way, Constx-uction
ixx DeWax-e Field House and print
ing of the px-ograms have begun.
Due to the confusion that pi-evail-
ed at the Pageant last year, a loud
speaker will be used, Black added.
Every Southwest Confex-ence
school has entered a duchess in
the Pageant, along with a host of
clubs and societies making a total
of 210 duchesses.
Tickets for the Pageant and Ball
are on sale now ixx room 201 of
the Experiment Station, at the
MSC, Student Activities office,
Lipscomb’s Pharmacy at the North
Gate and at WSD Clothiers in
Bxyan.
The Aggieland Orchestra will
play at the Ball scheduled to start
in the Grove at 9 p. m. Carmen
Hines, singer and dancer f x*om
Fox-t Worth, who has pei'formed
at Rue Pinalle, will also be featur
ed on the dance program.
Interviewed Juniors Say
Senior Companies Slionid Go
Abolishment of senior companies would be a step toward this, he
next year was favox-ed by a gx-oup | said.
of juniors interviewed yesterday.
Most of those ixxterviewed favored
lowering the academic standards
for classification.
Roland Bahlman fx-om San An
tonio believes keeping the seniox-s
in outfits would prevent them
from feeling-like “out casts”. How
ever, oi-gaxxizations have mox'e of-
ficex-s thaxx is necessary, he added.
‘Seniors Closer to Corps’
Abolishing senior companies
would bx-ing back senior class pres
tige, said M. M. Dean fx-om San
Angelo. Living in regular outfits
“Seniors in the outfits have a
closer relationship to the corps,”
believes A. D. Scott from Houston.
“More officers make a better out
fit and better qualifies a man for
a commission.”
Carter Price from Kex-nes be
lieves it should be up to the in
dividual whether or xxot he wants
to live in a senior company. Price
feels the senior companies should
have mox-e x-esponsibility.
“More seniox-s in the ox-ganizia-
tion would be especially good in
the freshman outfits,” said J. V.
Post from Navasota. “It would
probably be better for all the
units.”
Post thinks bi-inging back the
x-ank of second lieutenant will not
lower the rank standards of the
corps.
Seniors need someone to set an
example for, and they don’t have
this chance in the senior com
panies, contends Bxuce Sterzing
fx-om Austin.
“They would be better qualified
for commissions if they had some
thing to do their last year in the
corps,” he added.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
was still uxxdecided as to where
seniors without rank would live.
sary to graduate in cexdain courses.
Senior classification fox-mex-ly took
as many as 113 houx-s in petroleum
engineering.
The ring committee approved
the following xules regulating
purchase of the senior- ring:
Senior Classification
Any student who attains senior
classification (95 semester- hours)
may ox-der an A&M ring. Orders
fox - rings may be placed as soon
as the Registrar’s Office has post
ed all grades.
Mid-semester grades of the
spring semester 1953 may be
counted as the final grades of the
semester in determining student’s
eligibility to ox-der the A&M rixxg.
Ring ox-ders for students qualify
ing under item two above may be
taken after April 15, and de
livery of x-ings so ordered will be
made after Aug. 5.
Rings will be delivex-ed in per-
soxx to the individual or they will
be mailed to the owner at an ad
ditional charge of 25 cents.
No x-ings will be mailed to sum
mer military camp addresses.
All rings must be paid for in
fxxll, including mailing charges,
when the ox-ders are placed.
Members of the committee de
clared they had no right to rule
who should wear the x-ing. Oxx the
motion of Mattei, the following
decision was appx-oved:
“The committee recognizes that
under these x-ules some studexxts
will be eligible to purchase the
ring in advance of the normal
time their class takes senior px-i-
vileges. The committee feels that
such students should conform to
cux-i'ent student customs and pol
icies in wearing of the ring.”
Seniors Didn’t Vote
Mattei poixxted out that seniors
did not even vote on the matter
when brought up at the last class
meeting.
“It is recognized as a tradition
for only students who take senior
privileges to wear the rixxg,” the
president said.
Registrar H. L. Heaton said
ixiany mox-e stxxdents would classify
as seniors academically after only
five semesters xxxxder the xxew
classification regulation. The Acad
emic Council also established class
ification for sophomores at 30
houx - s and for juniors at 60 hours.
Members of the i-ing committee
ax-e E. E. McQuillen, chairman,
Development Fxxxxd dix*ector; C. G.
(Spike) White, director of stu
dent activites; J. B. (Dick) Her-
vey, executive secretary of the
Association of Foi*mer Students;
Heaton; E. L. Angell, assistant to
the chancellor; W. L. Penberthy,
dean of men.
Bob Travis, Student Senate
px - esident; Mattel; T. B. Field,
junior class px-esident; W. R.
(Dusty) Caxxon, sophomore class
px-esident; and Donald Joe Dier-
schke, fi-eshman class president.
Weather Today
THREATENING
WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy*
A cold front will pass thx-ough
Amarillo Thursday afternoon and
will pass thx-ough the College Sta
tion area sometime Friday unless
it is met by a warm Gulf air mass.