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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1953)
■- wsrsEES ((ori : Local Residents “Rill k a fourtli across thi-. other; he ; The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By 1 A&M Students For 75 Years md lookftj 58: Volume 53 inff coi'rec'.'m~7~T~ I were side 1 were, HE6[: WILLIAMS ER, the ot fine 1939 1: lives intlis : you stop aj, COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1953 Price Five Cents >riiion Delivers ?ter Day Speech Crowd of 5,000 Thornton of Colorado ..v—ry “A Godless ideology st enemy.” at the Muster services on said “there is in a something beyond earning reaching be- terial.” 5,000 persons attend- ter Day program, in hose heroes at San others who gave their edom of Texas and to men who have died t Muster*. t Muster here was one throughout the world, been; held every year nor, native Texan him- tliat long p: ts you aren’t -OT (lusty old: e( j “tho yearning of icker wayt' ^ond the mater ial—call what you wish, but it ;s man from himself, it i 1Tiri ror-t:dity; his ap- ■ I ll\r inle " l ' it y ii v< “3 1 E \/IlLt'ence of God and ser- fellowman. inment of Idea Thornton said, “it is y, with the help of God, himself to the attain- ideal. It is diametri- ed to a Godless ideo- today, is our greatest ours to face the reali- fs danger; to meet the Struct ion with the as- r of consecration to our vay of life. Herein lies ■servation and the hope 1.” mor was introduced by )f the College M. T. lA ■it arel been alarmed by the ^■reeping socialism,” the ^■eclared. “And well we Hi; is our duty to educate Hn the effects of such ^Bmds in our national ^Bthrouigh the study of ^Hrs who have succumbed ^®r*uctive influence of so- jcism and communism, latest vigilance on the ;ry American is neces- re to make a report on to Lead our children of our successful stewardship of their heritage,” he said. Thornton paid high tribute to Gen. Sam Houston and other partiots. He said to him as a kid here, the Aggie Muster did not mean much. “But as the years went by, it was easy to learn that here an nually was one of the grandest, most traditional events that any college in the country ever held,” he said. The Corps of Cadets marched in review prior to the Muster pro gram. Medal Awarded The Silver Star Medal was awarded posthumously during the ceremonies to 2nd Lt. David Rives, who was killed in Korea in 1952. An A&M graduate, class of ’52, Lt. Rives entered the Army and was sent to Korea. His pai'ents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rives of Brookton, received the medal pre sented by Col. Shelly P. Myers Jr., PMS&T. The ceremonies, one of the most traditional of the college, were held in front of the MSC. The Ross Volunteers, honorary military guard of the college, fired three volleys in honor of the dead. The A&M band played “The Star Spangled Banner” to open the pio- gram and the invocation was given by O. C. Jarvis of Brownwood, cadet corps chaplain. Mattel Talks Joe Mattei of San Antonio, sen ior class president, gave the Mus ter tradition and talks by A. P. (Smiley) Mitchell of Corsicana, president of the Former Students Association, and Cadet Col. of the Corps Weldon Kruger of Austin, followed. Following singing of “T h e Twelfth Man” by the Singing Cadets, Harrington introduced Thornton. Following the governor's address “The Spirit of Aggieland” was sung and the traditional i*oll call of A&M men who have died since the last Muster was led by Cadet Lyle Wolfskill of Houston. The singing of “Auld Lang Syne” by the Singing Cadets and “Silver Taps” given by a group from the band, closed the ceremonyv Gene Steed of Groom was Mus ter chairman. Aggie Muster Causes Corps Drill Delay There will be no drill to morrow. The muster review yester day took the place of the regu lar drill period, said Col. Shel ly P. Myers, PMS&T. Army ROTC seniors will meet for a pre-active duty orientation period at 4 p.m. in Guion Hall. Air Force seniors will not meet, said Col. John A. Way, PAS&T. The army seniors’ meeting is the only activity scheduled for the regular drill period. The corps review for Federal Inspection will be at the reg ular drill time next Thursday, April 30. Noted Scientist Tells Sigma Xi Facts of the Sun “Powerful new corona- graphs will soon aid astrono mers in their world-wide as sault upon the unsolved pro blems of .the sun’s atmos phere.” This prediction was made last night by Dr. Walter O. Roberts, high altitude observatory of Harvard University and Univer sity of Colorado, while speaking to the local chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. A coronagraph is an instrument used to create man-made eclipses by cutting off the bright light from the main body of the sun so its outer atmosphere is visible. In order to learn more about the atmosphei’e, the sun is being observed daily at a half-dozen ob servatories throughout the world, he commented. A great part of our knowledge of the behavior of the sun has come from eclipse observations, he said. Once a year, on the average, a total solar eclipse occurs some where on the surface of the earth, he added. It is almost a certaintly that the “northern lights” often seen at high latitudes in the United States origniate in streams of particles from the sun, he said. However, direct observational evidence for the omission of these particles is still lacking, he ’ex plained. ff?” ^ a,m Aggie Players Present auditors . Hal . vcy , Here May g quality fo(Andy) Adam, field ative for the Texas ral Extension Ser- been granted leave OYV nicoth to serve as group more than 20 European editors. sponsored by up. the 1% higher' cur, 'ty Administration, 0 d of 12 men from Yugo- ee from Austria, two lark, five from Germany l from Norway. GiVG YOU 11 arr ' ve ‘ n th e United r 4, and stay until June r j RgOM’ i s designed to consist s working with commer- Z© HI farm editors in this extraordic the only land - grant Jr .. group will visit, Adam u for yourf. FranC es Arnold, as- eld is te tor ’ ant * ^* EUcker- buy. editor, both of the Ex- rvice, will be in charge >up’s program while at ation. »porf N» , , About of loda y •r a full yes' Jlist has be group ofL^ f>kers regulte-=|; every two* •.. no aA e, throat* 'making CLOUDY [ER TODAY: Cloudy to with widely scatter- The maximum tem- resterday was 79 and the I The Aggie Players will present the two-act comedy “Harvey” May 8 and 9 in Guion Hall. There will be three perform ances: Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. The show also will be at Bryan Air Force Base May 6, at the invita tion of the base commander. “Harvey” is the story of a man who has a six feet tall, invisible white rabbit for a friend. The play was made into a motion picture after several years on Broadway. The cast and their parts are as follows: Harry Gooding, Elwood P. Dowd; Mrs. David H. Moxgan, Veta Louise Simmons; Mrs. Iris Brel- land, Myrtle Mae Simmons; Ted Castle, Dr. Chumley; B. B. Smith, Wilson; Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, Mrs. Chauvenet; Mrs. Virginia Lemon, Ruth Kelly. Bill Withers, Judge Omar Gof- fney; Miss Martha Jane Konecny, Miss Johnson; Vic Robinson, E. J. Lofgren; and Mrs. Walter H. Dela- plane, Mrs. Betty Chumley. Jerry McFarland will be stage manager and J. L. Shanks will be in charge of lighting. C. K. Esten of the english department is di rector of the Aggie Players. The curtain will not be used for this play, Esten said. Scenery will be changed in view of the audience, and the actors will be able to use the floor space in front of the curtain. Esten has played Elwood P. Dowd, the lead in this play, in summer stock productions. “Harvey” will be the third and last Aggie Player production for this year. The only play definitely scheduled for next year is “Mr. Roberts,” Esten said. Others will be chosen during the summer. Reorganized Demerit System Proposed for Corps Next Year Company Clerk to Keep Record of Issued Demerits 1953 Cotton Pageant South Will Rise As Cotton Reigns The south will rise again Friday for at least one day at Aggieland. The crowning of King and Queen Cotton, flanked by duchesses from TSCW at Denton and will start the 1953 Cotton Pageant at 7:30 p. m. Friday in the DeWare Field House. The Cotton Ball will be held after the pageant in the Grove. Harold Scaief, senior agronomy major from San Benito, will be crowned King Cotton by Albert Russell, assistant to the executive vice-president of the National Cot ton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Scaief in tm*n will crown Miss Jane McBrierty of Ennis, TSCW junior, Queen. Royal Court Members Members of the Royal Court are Miss Allie Jeanne Glass, Miss Mar garet Robinson, Miss Cora Jane Becker, Miss Gloria Bendy, Miss Jonetta Lovett, Miss Mary Helen Winston, Miss Lucinda Bailey and Miss Barbara Ann Stewart, all of TSCW. Fritz Welsch of New Braunsfels, Thomas L. Payne of Stanton, Ro bert Johnson, Fort Worth, Gerald Dairy Judging Contest Won By Bryan FFA Bryan’s Future farmer’s of America teams won in the live stock and dairy cattle divisions of the Area III FFA Livestock Judg ing Contest held here last week end. The complete results were: Meats Division, winners in the order of their placing, were Katy, Fayetteville, Aldine (Houston) and Moulton. Poultry Division winners were Moulton, Fayetteville, Rockdale, Crosby, Thorndale, Katy, Tomball, Hallettsville and Klein. Livestock Division winners were Bryan, Moulton, Lexington, Flat- onia, Shiner, Magnolia, Milby (Houston), Snook and Rockdale. Dairy Produts division winners were LaGrange, Fayetteville, Moulton, Aldine, Klein, Magnolia, lola, Cedar Bayou and Palacios. Dairy Cattle division winners were Bryan, LaGrange, Fayette ville, Lexington, Katy, Cameron, Alvin, Pasadena and Columbus. Land Judging winners were La- Gi-ange, Needville, Caldwell and Hearne. E. V. Walton, head of the agri cultural education depai'tment, said the winning teams in the land judging division will not attend the state contest May 2. Buster of Happy, Leonard Stasney and Leonard F. Thornton of Tem ple, Ernie Enloe of Daisetta and Frank Ford of Lubbock, all A&M agronomy majors. Honoring the King and Queen will be 200 duchesses and their escorts, representing college, A&- M Mothers’ Clubs, Chambers of Commerce and student societies at A&M. The Queen’s crown bearer will be Miss Virginia Ann Patterson and the King’s crown bearer will be Wilfred Lemon. Joe Woolket, head, modem languages department, will be mas ter of cermonies. An entertain ment program including dancing, singing, clown acts and other feat ures is to be presented instead of the style show which had been held for many years. The Aggieland orchestra will furnish music for the pageant and the dance that will follow the page ant. A silver set will be presented formally to the college by Mrs. A. D. Mebane in honor of her late husband, A. D. Mebane, who fathered scientific cotton better ment in the state. D. E. P. Humbert of the genetics department will make the presenta tion and it will be accepted by President M. T. Harrington. The Agronomy Society of the college has sponsored the Cotton Pageant since 1932 when the first one was held. Since than a page ant has been held each year with the exception of two years when it was discontinued during World War II. Funds derived from the pageant are used to finance several agronomy major students on a two to three-week tour to study agri culture in other sections of the United States and sometimes abroad. C. E. Watson is faculty sponsor of the Pageant. Air Force Officers Short Deferment Anyone who will have completed at least 60 semester hours by the end of this year is eligible for a four month draft deferment if they sign up for Air Force observer or pilot ti'aining. A reci’uiting team is now in the MSC gift shop area to sign men up for this program. Men who sign up are tested at Lackland field. Those who sign for the four month deferment are not obligated to go into training. They may drop out any time during the four months, said Major T. J. Rowland, head of the testintg team. Interviewed Cadets Say Let Seniors Make Policies Mrs. Wilkins Better After Operation Mrs. Taylor Wilkins, wife of Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com mandant, underwent a lung opera tion at Scott and White Hospital in Temple last Friday. Mrs. Wilkins is recovering satis factory and us expected home in two or three weeks, said Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. Col. Wilkins is on leave of ab sence from the military department and is expected back sometime this week, Zinn said. By JON KINSLOW Battalion News Staff Corps policy should be decided by the senior class as a whole said nine out of eleven cadets represent ing all classes interviewed yester day in the MSC. Each of those interviewed were asked the question, “Should the power to make corps policies be given to the senior class or to the high ranking cadet officers (divis ion commanders and above).” “It looks like the power of the senior class is being slowly taken away,” said Ray Coveney, senior from Boerne. “If you let the sen iors decide, then they will work harder to enforce their decisions.” Sophomore Rico Arredondo from Laredo thought the seniors could do a better job than one select group such as the cadet officers. However, he felt that as things now stand possibly it should be the officers who decide the policies. A few people may not reflect the best opinions, believes G. T. An drews, freshman from Shreveport. “Officers should not be the sole judge for policies,” said P. G. Hector, junior from Coleman. He felt most seniors are qualified just as much as the officers. A different idea was presented by Bob King, sophomore from Houston. He thought each outfit should have one representative for each class and these men should meet to formulate all corps policies. Another sophomore, H. H. Wyatt from Houston, agi'eed this was a good plan. Wyatt felt Saturday Meeting Set By Directors The personnel of the faculty members of the Athletic Council will be up for approval at the A&M College System Board of Directors meeting hei - e at 9 a. m. Saturday. Agenda matters to be discussed at the session include school bud gets, street improvements and water lines to a new well. Bids will be received for the daix*y breeding center here. G. R. White of Brady is president of the Board. enforcement of the policies should be left up to the cadet officers. King and Wyatt were the only two who opposed letting the sen iors make corps policies. “Letting the seniors do it is the way it has always been handled and it has always worked,” said R. J. Creel, senior from Galveston. Two cadets, G. L. Dalton and J. L. Mason, agreed it would be bet ter to handle the problem by a larger group, such as the senior class. “A larger group can get more done because there is more varia tion of opinion,” said Dalton, jun ior from Pittsburg. Mason, fresh man from Crockett, gave no reason for letting the group make the policies. All seniors should be considered equal regardless of their rank in the corps, felt T. H. Langford, freshman from Banderra. Most of those interviewed favor ed the opinion of W. L. Smith, junior from Texarkana, He said, “It is hard to say why the seniors should do it, but still it is the best way." By HARRI BAKER Battalion City Editor The military department has proposed a new demerit sys tem which will allow unit commanders more responsibility in handling demerits for his outfit. Col. John A. Way, PAS&T, and Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T, have approved the new plan. It is being considered for use next year, said Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. As a part of the plan, a sophomore- in each outfit will be appointed as company clerk. He will keep a record of all demerits issued in his unit. A list of the men in each unit who are to receive demerits will be taken to the military de--^ partment headquarters each Wed nesday. The military department will then publish the extra duty list. A copy of the demerit slip will be sent to the company clerk, and the military department will keep 4 a copy for its records. A major innovation will be that men who have extra duty tours will go to their unit commander for postponement, instead of to the military department. This will eliminate confusion in the records section of the mili tary department and give the com pany level more responsibility, said Col. Robert L. Melcher, act ing assistant commandant. Corps Reorganization The Corps will be reorganized next year to eliminate the division level. The number of wings and regiments will be reduced from two each to one each, eliminating several staffs. The number of men on the re maining staffs will be cut. “Staffs next year will really have something to do,” Col. Mel- (Continued on Page 4) Sales Clinic Will Discuss Retail Field Ways a college graduate can enter the retail field will be dis cussed at the fourth annual sales clinic, today in the Biological Sciences Lecture Room. The first session will start at 3 p. m. Types of jobs in the retail field will also be discussed by a panel consisting, of E. P. Silver- man, salesman for Lack’s Auto Stores, and Gaylor Johnson, Vice- President of Sakowitz in Houston. The second session on the pro gram will begin at 7:30 p. m. with a panel discussion about types of selling jobs performed and re quirements for the position as a salesman in the Business Machines, Insurance, Oil and Supply figlds. Representing these fields are Charles N. Royds, branch manager, National Cash Register Company; Norval Pierce, branch manager, Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany; John B. Freeman, The Tex as Company; and R. L. Norton, General Electric Supply Company. This year’s clinic is sponsored by the department of business ad ministration, Houston Sales Exe cutives Club and the Student Bus- ness Society. Float Out Probe Still Continues “We’re still investigating,” said Col. Joe E. Davis, com mandant, concerning the float out of Ross Hall April 12. When asked if any leads had been discovered, Col. Davis repeated, “WeTe still investi gating.” Singing Cadets Set Award Banquet The annual Singing Cadets Award Banquet will be held at 7:15 p. m. Saturday in the Sbisa Hall banquet room. Awards will be presented to members of the Cadets on the basis of length of membership. Special awards will be given to the old of ficers of the group. Eight and six semester mem bers will be presented award let ters. Four semester members will get gold keys, while two semester members will receive silver keys. Names of the officers for next year will be announced at the ban quet. Board Gets OK To Abolish TSC Academy The A&M College System Board of Directors were given yesterday the power to dis continue the academy at Tar- leton State College in a bill passed by the House and sent to the Senate. This was one of the bills passed during a four hour afternoon ses sion in which the House passed 78 bills, sending 70 to the Senate and eight to the governor. Among those already approved by the Senate and thus sent to the governor were those that would: Change the period of living apart without cohabitation as a ground for divorce from ten to seven years. Authorize Galveston to lease Pelican Spit. Another with Senate approval sets up the Nqrfheast Texas Muni cipal Water District in Cass, Mor ris, Marion, Camp, Titus, Upshur and Harrison Counties. The House amended it, however, to take out the town of Gilmer, and it must go back for senate ap proval of that change. Among house bills approved and sent to the Senate along with the Tarleton bill are ones that would: Create a water conservation dis trict in the northwest part of Waco to utilize some artesian wells. Regulate fishing in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney and tribu- tai'ies in Bosque, Hill and Johnson counties. Authorize Texas Western Col lege to give a degree of bachelor of science in nursing, but carry ing no appropriation. Sue Harris Chosen FFA Sweetheart Miss Sue Harris, of Navasota High School, was cho»en FFA Sweetheart Saturday at the se cond annual A&M Collegiate Chapter’s dance in Sbisa. Mrs. Perry Shepard was chosen sweetheart of the A&M Collegiate FFA Chapter. Miss Harris is also sweetheart of the Navasota High School Chapter. Mrs. Shepard was presented a pair of western boots and Miss Harris a western hat. The gifts were compliments of Sears Roe buck & Co. Twelve high school FFA Chap ter presidents and the chapter sweethearts were guest of the A&M Collegiate Chapter. Everyone present was dressed western style and danced to the music of Jimmy' Eller and his Bronc Busters, said Wm. High tower, vice president of the A&M Chapter. Cattleman’s Ball Set for Saturday Three honorary memberships in the Saddle and Sirlion Club will be awarded Saturday night at the Cattleman’s Ball. Dancing begins at 8 p. m. Ad mission is $2.50 with or without dates. Cadets may attend in civili an clothes. Jesse James’ cowboy band wilt furnish the music and proceeds will be used to sponsor judging trips. The memberships will be given to J. M. Jones of the animal hus bandry department Dr. H. Schmidt of the School of Veterinary Med icine, and John A. Tulia for his work as a Poland China breeder.