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Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)' TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Centa
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classics.
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; and anyone
; ander said.
iter Activities
:
wmdn With Parade
Satnrda
s Afternoon
Boat riding
:md a campi
light the am
I nion Sp' u be dismissed at 3
1 riruble, pul n for the traditional
the BSU. ..
Actmties of Cadets will fall
p. m. Satumdew at 3:15 p. m. to
1 hose whod emoon’s activities,
lion will !Thornton of Colorado,
Trimble said, aker for the Muster,
today. Thornton
,oduced by President
igton.
vices will begin at 5
nt of the MSC. “The
d Banner” played by
.nd will start the pro-
‘ucticms will be made
College Sti'e (Ash) Ashburn.
lain O. C. (Putter)
Bankkdve the invocation.
l on of the Muster will
/ 1 1] Joe Mattel, senior
LOlMrnt. A. F. (Smiley)
0 sident of the Former
sociation, will speak
For
Star
ger to Talk
uge7‘, cadet colonel of
NOIPill also make a short
which the Singing
sing “The Twelth
. [will then introduce
lutTlirfli the ^ College, M. T.
i kV ^° w '" present Gov.
I iQrnill 101 ’ n t°n, a Texan, at-
llalunr for a short while.
ed by the band, the
HR! singe “The Spirit of
TT A T.T'vnrjnr after Thornton’s
HARDWARE
• CHINAS' 11 ol! Aggies who have
ie last Muster will be
Et Captain Lyle Wolf-
>11 will be answered by
e men who have died.
olunteer firing squad
■ee volleys in memor-
yan Commu:
•ing Cadets
ng Cadets will
then
F'ircf Syne.” after the
■ II ol ulfinony, Silver - Taps will
tiding the 1953 Aggie
& Til*™ should last from 30
to 45 minutes, said Gene Steed,
chairman of the Muster Commit
tee.
Also taking part in the cere-
money will be guidons of all units
and color guards. Ross Volunteers
in uniform will be stationed along
the MSC steps.
The ceremony will be transcribed
by the Texas Quality Network for
a later broadcast at 9:35 Tuesday
night. Houston’s KPRC - TV will
film the Muster for a later show
ing over their - station and others.
Corps Personnel Cut
Beginning Next Year
Air Force Reveals
Camp Assignmen ts
R. S.* (Dick) Walker
A Battery AAA
Trustees
Of Bond
The A&M Consolidated School
Board of Tx-ustees yestex'day set
Satux-day, May 2, as the date for a
$385,000 school bond election.
The bonds, to be voted on by the
residents of the school district,
would pay fox - the building of a
new high school, an auditorixxm and
a genex - al purpose room for Lin
coln School for Negmes. Included
in the purchase would be 13 acx-es
of land adjacent to the present
school.
The new high school and audi-
toiiunx ax - e planned for the land
between the px - esent school and
Highway 6. The building xxow
used by the high school would be
tui'ned over to the junior high
school.
Hax-ley Carswell, bonding agent
for Rauschei - , Pierce and Co., has
said his company can give the dis
tinct 3.38 per cent intex - est on the
bonds. Cai’swell has said that his
company will buy up to one million
dollars woxth of College Station
bonds, if the distinct ever wanted
to go that high.
The pi'oposed bonds will be 30-
year bonds.
An incx-ease in the school tax
Set Date
Election
x’ate for the district will be used
to pay for the bonds. By doubling
the evaluation rate and cutting
back the tax inxte to give a 35 per
cent increase, the school board es
timates it will have enough income
to pay for the bonds and main
tain the new facilities.
Pi - oposed Budget
Budget for the bond plan is as
follows:
14-i - oom high school
building $202,009
600-seat auditorium $106,000
Lincoln general pux-pose
I'oom $ 37,000
Equipment $ 11,150
Bond Fee $ 3,850
Land and utilities $ 25,000
Total $385,000
.The votex's of the district de
feated a $656,000 bond issue last
Januai - y. The defeated bonds call
ed for the building of a new high
school and an elementary school.
Member Ft:
Insurance
des Win Fourth
BEE . n
'Annual Rodeo
LAUNl
SRRY ESTES
iLr-Froo * Ne ” s Edi, " r
ie Rodeo Team won
& CLEi in their annual rodeo
r er the weekend. Sam
ufhomed P ,! a te Teacher's College
(Plomt’th 436 points.
State College was se-
™ock East of g points, and Hax-din
xs third with 313(4
college;
"rgo, ..from Sam Hous-
'eachexs College, won
id Cowboy Champion-
•ing 160 individual
er-up was Bob Schijds
o A&M with 157. Mc-
ja hand tooled saddle
■ts.
Head
ttend
Confab
lenryTai-dson, superintendent
^ xsolidated Schools, will
o rkshop of school super-
Teachers College,
niversity, in New York
July -
. superintendents from
HARD' 1 ! country will meet to
•pi a QiTTjlommunity school. The
^study x-eports of other
TEEN’Teseax-ch ox-ganizations.
->wledges, skills, and in-
r improving communi-
education and schools
# eveloped,” Richax - dson
n compiled by the
e published and made
other schools in the
v » in has done some px - e-
ice Crea®bik on the study. Pax-t
:ax - ch was published in
MELLO^ issue of “The School
a magazine for school
“A Nut* ;ors «.
Betty Harralson, also from Sam
Houston, was high point getter in
the girls events.
Hei’e is how the individual
champions fared. Schilds won the
bareback bi'onc riding, and also
took the saddle bronc lading;
James Mickler fx-om Hardin Sim
mons took the bull i - iding; Joby
Connell of A&M and Bill Teague
from Hardin Simmons split honoi’s
in the tie-down calf roping; Son
ny Sides from Sam Houston won
the ribbon x-oping; and McCai'go
won the steer wi-estling.
Aggie Winners
Bobby Rankin of A&M won
fourth in the second go-around in
bull dogging, and placed foux-th in
the avex - age. Lowie Rice took se
cond in the first go-ax-ound of the
dogging and won the second go-
around in x-ibbon x-oping for the
Cadets.
Joby Connell finished second in
the fix'st go-around in tie-down
calf roping and gxabbed foux-th in
the second go-around to gain the
split in the avex*age. Roy Pate tpok
foux-th in the first go-around tie
down calf x-oping and Vergil Pat-
rict walked off with fourth in the
avex-age tie-down calf x-oping to
complete winnei-s for the Aggies.
The rodeo was a three day, foux--
performance show, with eighteen
schools from five states entered.
Air Cadet Selection
Team Arrives Here
An aviation cadet selection team
composed of officers and aix-men
will meet from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Apx-il 22-23 in the MSC to discuss
changes in the aviation cadet
training program.
Pamphlets concerning the type
of aix-cxaft cux-x-ently being flown,
length of tx-aining received and
benefits graduates of the pi-ogi-am
x-eceive upon completion of their
tx-aining, will be given to interest
ed persons*
SDX Discusses
Credit Union
At Friday Meet
The Texas Gulf Coast Chap
ter of Sigma Delta Chi, na
tional journalism fraternity,
discussed a loan fund and
credit union for Houston area
newsmen at its meeting Friday in
the MSC.
The proposed loan fund is de
signed to give editorial workers
protection from loan shai’ks, said
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
joui-nalism depax-tment who was
master of cex-emonies at the meet
ing.
Plans wei-e made for the state
Sigma Delta Chi meet to be held
in Austin May 15-16, Four new
members were initiated. The chap
ter also initiated eight new mem
bers for the University of Houston
chaptex-.
The newsmen reversed the usual
order of “initiate and eat” by hav
ing the banquet first. They then
discussed the loan fund and state
meet. The fox-thcoming meeting
will be the first of its kind.
Taps’ Held
Last Night
For Senior
Silver Taps was held at
10.30 last night for Richard
S. Walker, senior business ad
ministration major from
Houston.
Walker died at 6 p. m. Friday
in the College Hospital from an in
testinal disordex-.
He x-epox-ted to the hospital Mon
day night. He was operated on
Tuesday. Walker seemed to be
better after the opex-ation, said
Miss Ii*ene Claghoxn, chief nux-se,
but suddenly became worse.
His body was taken to Houston
Saturday and sex-vices were held
Sunday. He was a member of the
Trinity Episcopal Church.
A&M cadets Sam H. Haper,
Robert S. Tevis, D. W. Crawford,
R. T. Luce, E. H. Stribling and R.
W. Sexton acted as pall bearex-s.
Honox-ax-y pall bearex*s were mem
bers of Battex-y A, anti-aircx-aft
artillery, in which he was a first
lieutenant.
Scholastic, athletic and com
munications officers will be
eliminated from next year’s
wing and regiment staff table
of organizations, said Lt. Col.
Robert Melcher, acting assist
ant commandant.
This announcement was
made following the plan for
the 1953-54 corps reorganiza
tion which will eliminate the px-es-
ent x-egiment or group level and
raise it to the present division
standing.
The position of public informa
tion officex- on these staffs will be
designated as S-2, Melcher ex
plained. In addition to handling
PIO duties for the wing, this offi
cer will assume the wox-k of the
fox-mer scholastic officex - , he said.
The S-2 officer will hold the rank
of cadet majox-.
Additional Captain
A new position of special sex-v
ice officex- with the rank of cap
tain will be added, he said. This
officer will handle duties of the
former athletic officex- or other
work for which he is needed, Mel
cher explained.
Next year’s,regiments and wing
staffs will not have a public in
formation sex-geant or athletic ser
geant he said. The duties of the
PIO sergeant will be handled by
(See CORPS, Page 2)
Tentative locations for A&M’s
Air Fox-ce ROTC summer camp
px-ogx-ams have been announced by
Col. John A. Way, PAS&T.
The Air Fox-ce bases, all located
xvest of Texas, will house 284 A&M
juniors and seniors during the first
camp pex-iod, the four weeks be
ginning June 22.
During the second camp, to be
held the four weeks following July
27, a total of 100 Aggies will go to
March AFB, Rivex-side* Cal. and
Walker AFB, Roswell, N. M.
The six camps listed for the first
pex-iod are the following, with
their A&M cadet quotas:
Norton AFB, San Bemax-dino,
Cal.—34 cadets.
Maxch AFB, 50 cadets.
Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, Nev.—
50 cadets.
Williams AFB, Phoenix, Ariz.—
50 cadets.
Duke AFB, Phoenix, Ariz.—50
cadets.
Walker AFB—50 cadets.
Air ROTC students, whei*evex-
possible, will be given theix- choice
Increased Enrollment May
Cause Prof Salary Decrease
An increase in enrollment next
year may mean fewer dollax-s for
A&M instructox-s’ pay checks said
Rep. B. H. Dewey Ji\ of Bryan
last week.
Dewey said two factpi's will in
fluence the actual amount of pay
incx-ease A&M instructors will re
ceive.
“One is enrollment,” Dewey said.
“The gi-eafcer the number of stu-
Wednesday
Is Last Day
For Filing
Wednesday is the deadline
for filing in the genex-al stu
dent elections to be held April
30 in the MSC.
Positions open for filing in
clude student senatox - , non-
militax-y repx-esentatives to the
Athletic Council, non-military
repx-esentatives to the Stu
dent Life Committee and non
military yell leader.
Students who filed previous
ly need not file again, said
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus
iness manager of student ac
tivities.
dents, the more instructors are x-e-
quix-ed and the fewer dollax-s will
be available to put in the instx-uc-
tor’s pay check.”
The second factox- is the amount
of money which the A&M Boax-d
of Directors may find available to
tx-ansfer to instructors’ pay, he
added.
More Money-Maybe
A&M x-eceives a total of $1,890,-
337 for each year of the biennium
for insti-uctoi-s’ salai-ies only.
“The Legislatux-e went further
and authox-ized the Board of Di
rectors to tx-ansfer, as it saw fit,
monies appi-opi-iated for other
items into that for instructors'’
pay,” he said.
Px-esident of the College M. T.
Harrington said last week, “I do
feel that after we have had an op
portunity to estimate all funds
available for next year and to
eliminate where advisable, we will
be able to give some raises in
salary next year.”
The px-esident was unavailable
for comment yesterday. He x-etuxus
today fx-om Washington D. C.
where he has been attending the
meeting of land grant colleges and
universities.
Received Special Attention
Dewey explained that salaries
for univex-sity and college class-
Portrays Life at A&M
SLC Lets $750 for Film
The Student Life Committee
(SLC) allocated yesterday $750 to
be used in filming a 20-minute
movie of life at A&M.
The money, tx-ansferx-ed fx-om
the student welfare and i-eci-eation-
al facilities account to the movie
fund, brings the total of money
appx-opx-iated for the movie to $4,-
285. In 1948, the SLC stax-ted the
fund with a $2,000 gx-ant which
was increased later by $1,535 fx-om
the A&M Mothei-s Clubs.
Transfer Money
The motion to transfer the
money was made by Councilman
Guy Shown and seconded by Bill
Brucks. A movie* similar to the
one planned by A&M, was shown.
It was about Michigan State Col
lege. Harx-y Kidd, associate px-o-
fessor in the English Depax-tment,
is wi*iting the sci-ipt for the movie.
The committee also appx-oved a
motion, Joe Mattei t senior class
px-esident, that a subcommittee be
appointed to make x-ecommenda-
tions in claxifying the discx-epancy
between the Student Life Con
stitution and the Student Senate
Consitution.
Recommendation for the changes
wei-e presented by Joel Austin,
Battalion co-editor, who was nam
ed chaix-man of the committee.
Othexs named to the gxoup wexe
Mattei, Lyle Wolfskill, Joe Wal
lace, Dean W. L. Penberthy and
C. G. (Spike) White, assistant
dean of men for Student Activities.
A step toward improving stu
dent-faculty relations also was
made by the committee. Cadet
Col. of the Corps Weldon Kiugex-
submitted the motion that the ca
det colonel of the corps be asked to
include in the duties of scholastic
officer that he encoux - age students
in his military organization to con
fer with their instructors for out
side class help, especially those
posting a grade of D or lower;
and to invite one of his instructors
to visit with his military ox-ganiza-
tion prior to supper formation and
then have supper with the military
organization.
Ctudent-Faculty Relations
Joe Wallace seconded the motion
which was unanimously appx-oved.
The student - faculty x-elations
committee was asked to investi
gate fux-ther the possibilities of
coffees dux-ing regular class houi-s
and arrangement of confex-ences
with instructors.
The committee unanimously ap-
px-oved a motion by Dan Russell
to allot $100 for placing com-
memoxative plaques for Mr. F. W.
Hensel at Hensel Park and Mr.
M. L. Cashion at Cashion’s Cabin.
Board of Dix-ectox-s appx-oval will be
needed before the plaques oan be
presented.
room instrac t tors, including those at
A&M and for county agricultural
extension workers x-eceived special
attention fx-om the 53x-d Legisla
ture.
“The Legislature added a mini
mum of $180 a yeax- to the salai-ies
of all state employes, but figux-e
in an average of $300 per college
instructor in arriving at lump sum
amounts for their salaries,” Dewey
said commenting of the new ap-
px-iations act.
County agi’icultui’al agents x-e-
ceived the $180 incx-ease “across-
the-board,” he said. Other state
sex-vices that ax-e financed partly
from state funds and partly fx-om
county and fedex-al funds received
the $180 increase enly on the
state’s share, Dewey added.
Constitution Requires
“Every member of the confer
ence committee that wrote the
final bill wishes the committee
could have done mox-e,” Rep. Dewey
said. “The big problem was to keep
the total amount of the big spend
ing bill within available state x-e-
venue, as the Constitution x-e-
quix-es.”
His comments were based on an
analysis of the appx-opriations act
prepared by legislative budget exa
miners.
The Legislatui-e’s action does
not necessarily mean that each
college instxuctor will get a pay
raise of $300 beginning next Sept-
embex-, he pointed out. A&M pro-
(See PROFS, Page 2)
of attending either the first or
the second‘session of camp.
Cadets may also specify their
first and second choices of sum
mer camp locations, said Way. In
no instances will cadets be as
signed to a camp less than 50 miles
from their home town.
All Air Fox-ce cadets scheduled to
attend camp this summer should
i-eport to M/Sgt Tenex-y, sergeant
major of the Air Fox-ce detachment,
in Room 205, Ag Ext. Building,
any time between 7:30 a. m. and
5 p. m. tompiTow or Thursday to
indicate their choices of camp site
and date of camp attendance, said
Way.
Preference Honored
Students’ prefex-ence of camp
sites and times will be honored in
sofar as assigned quotas will per
mit, he said.
Air Science officei*s and enlisted
men will be assigned to camps at
Bryan AFB; Biggs AFB, El Paso;
and Ellington AFB, Houston, Way
said.
A total of nine officers and en
listed men vail be assigned to Bx-y-
an, two to Biggs and two to Elling
ton. The officex-s will report June
15, a week before cadets arrive, to
set up teaching schedules and to
see that the camps are px-operly
pxepared for the ROTC students.
Singleton Is
Outstanding
Pre-Med
Bill Singleton was named out
standing pi-e-medical or pre-dental
student at the annual banquet of
the Px-e-Medical and Pre-Dental
Society Thursday night in the MSC.
He was presented with the so
ciety key by Chax-les Bex-gex-, so
ciety px-esidfent.
Singleton is an Oppurtunity
Award Scholarship holder and a
nxembex- of Phi Eta Sigma and
Phi Beta Phi. He has maintained
a grade point xatio of 2.65.
An active member of the Px-e-
Med and Pie Dent Society, Sing
leton is lab assistant in compara
tive anatomy. He also works in the
bacteriology depax-tment.
He is a member of the water
polo team and manager- ef the
swimming team.
Array Seniors
Face Duty Call
By June, ’54
Most Army ROTC gradu
ates who receive their com
missions after May 1, 1953,
will be required to go on ac
tive duty by June 30, 1954,
accoi-ding to information released
by the Depax-tment of the Army
and the Associated Press. .
Reason for the added time is that
the Army wants to give students
ample time to complete their edu
cations and make plans befox-e go
ing on active duty.
Wherever possible, Ax-my seniors
may choose the month in which
they wish to be called, the x-elease
continued.
Exceptions to the active sex-vice
call are officers with previous mili
tary experience and only sons in
a family. These men will be ac
cepted on a volunteer basis only.
Postponement of active duty will
be allowed when an officer needs
time to complete his academic
course. Howevei-, he must be pur
suing a full academic load, the
Army said.
Last week, seniox-s in the trans
portation and quax-tex-master coi-ps
here wexe asked to choose anothel•
army branch for possible tx-ansfer
of their commissions. Col. Shelly
P. Myex-s, PMS&T, said he did not
know how many of the men would
be allowed to keep theix- present
branch or -would get fix-st choice of
another branch.
WARMER
WEATHER TODAY: Clear and
warmer. The maximum tempera-
tuxe i-ecox-ded at Easterwood air-
pox-t yesterday was 71 and the low
was 40.