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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1953)
r tvds fot Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent f Local Residents JR STORi 9T\ The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By 1 A&M Students For 75 Years COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1953 Price Five Cents Harrington Agrees to Consider Corps of Cadets Consolidation JL Corps Policy Committee Samuels Outlines ’53- ’54 MSC Goals chap, li for him. rawling on hiii [y members fl r ' al)I)ed a spot EEN AND HER COURT—Shown in their Neiman-Marcus dresses, designed for ; • Dava'i Cotton Pageant and Ball, are from left to right: (Seated) Miss Mary Helen Win- ‘ s Cora Jane Becker, Coton Queen Miss Jane McBrierty, Miss Gloria Bendy, Miss re Than nned for AnnlStewart, (Standing) Miss Allie Jeanne Glass, Miss Margaret Robinson and a silkworm!I:j n( jJ Bailey. Miss Jonetta Lovett was absent from the picture because of illness. faculty hid A oor Charlie, ! ructor, leapir- he other proles leusen dealer; d to Professor riispun Sport' . . . , n 200 duchesses will n icy re Pane cotton Harold Scaief I'lurs. \ett(ieito and Queen Cotton sport shirts, > J ty of TSCW and En- n i„ e southern atmosphere ll " vornl! K hl at the 19th annual aver the top c >ant and Ball, an HeusenVar..t ^rSOip. m. in DeWare homed iMnlm’ the Pageant will pro- ( ’ ‘ : r and a half of enter- . rSow I car Pageant Dii’ector 200 Duchesses Cotton Pageant ieland Orchestra will program with 30 min- B sic. Next follows the ->f the King by Albert Winners -They're east) 1 * Lucky Strike ought to t eceive Watches •es and two 17 jewel i es wi 11 be awarded to of the annual Fresh- ^(ophonioVe Mathematics held in the Academic ’.esday, Apxnl 28 begin- p. m. the Freshman Contest, ust be now enrolled in > 104, a classified fresh- jflli; not have repeated a llegelmathematics, said fie, head of the math- iailment. unore Contest is open (dent now enrolled in 204 who has not been more than foui' re bel’s in college. He also ive repeated a college rs course and his classi- pt not have been higher more in September, man contest will be a 223 and the sopho- eet in room 225 of the Suilding. -scoring freshman and eachlwill receive a 17- ; watch. Second and are|$15 and $10 cash. :S will come from two dished in memory of mathematics teachers nderella losUht F. Smith and Hide! h her Prince 0 y would have^ ... . .. . , Luckies beenv v 111 recive their awards neers Day Convocation, /• her Today “AlUtTTS ER TODAY: Possibly ierstorm activity and Russell, assistant to the executive vice-president of the National Cot ton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. The king will then present the duchesses of the seven Southwest Conference colleges and of the Agronomy Society, and crown his queen, Miss Rattan said. The queen’s court will be presented fol lowing the coronation. J. J. Woolket, head of the mod- 4 0M South’Set As Cotton Ball Theme Friday A Mississippi River land ing and plantation will be the main theme of decorations for the 1953 Cotton Pageant and Ball tomorrow -night in De- Ware Field House. A pier; will be erected at the east end of the basketball court to give the impression that the Royal Court, pukes and Duchesses have just disembarked from a river boat. f v The west fhd of the gymnasium will have the traditional southern mansion with columns, overhang ing roof and white picket fence. Members of the court and the dushesses will come into the field house on the pier, will descend to the gym floor and walk; the length of the room to the mansion at the other end. Decorations, being worked on by the Agronomy Society, will be com pleted Friday morning, said Clarence Watson, agronomy pro fessor and advisor to the 1953 Cot ton Pageant and Ball. The Grove will not be decorated for the Cotton Ball, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of Student Activities. His reason is that any decorations placed in the large, outdoor area look in significant. ern languages department, will be master of ceremonies. A silver set will be presented to the college by Mrs. A. D. Mebane in honor of here late husband Mr. A. D. Me bane, who fathered scientific cot ton betterment in the state. Presi dent of the College M. T. Harring ton will receive the set from D. E. P. Humbert of the genetics depart ment. “Then the parade of southern beauties begins,” said Miss Rattan. She said about 220 duchesses and their escorts representing organi zations on the campus and from throughout Texas will be present- ed. Included in the entertainment which follows will be songstress Carmen Hines of Fort Worth and Billie Biggs of Southern Methodist University, a dancer, said Miss Rattan. Better student-faculty relations is a goal of the MSC next year, said John S. Samuels, new presi dent of the MSC Council and Di rectorate. Other proposals for 1953-54 and new ideas mentioned by Samuels include @ Formation of a forum com mittee to operate inconjunction with the Dallas Council on World Affairs. ® An expanded program to edu cate new freshmen on the value of extra-curricular activities through the MSC’s new student week set up and through the basic division classes. ® Taking the Junto Club, cam pus discussion group, into the MSC as a Directorate body, the first time such a group has been in tegrated into the MSC organiza tion. Better student-faculty relations will be attempted through coffees to be held once a semester during the regular class period by students and their professors. Calendar Planned The possibility of printing a monthly calendar listing activi ties for that month was also men tioned by Samuels. • An expanded art program with more and varied exhibits is also planned for next year. Continual broadcast of serious music in the Center. From open ing to closing has also been plan ed. More record listening hours similar to the program held in the Center, earlier this week are pro posed for next year. In addition to these suggestions, Samuels promised better organiza tion of the MSC personnel program with closer coordination among other campus groups. Aggie Follies and ‘Harvey’ Set in Guion Hall May 8-9 Memorial Pari i For Aggie Dead Is Being Built A memorial park to Ag gies who fought in the Spanish American War is under construction west of the new area dormitories, said W. H. Badgett, manager of the physical plants. It will be a lounging park where students can relax, Badgett said. The monument, to be dedicated at commencement, will be given by the memorial Association of Spanish-American War Veterans. When complete, the park will contain walks, benches, new shrubs and trees, and ornamental street lights. Badgett expects to com plete it in one or two years. Work is being done on laying the new walks and on planting. The barbed wire fence around the area will be removed as soon as the plants have had a chance to start growing, Badgett said. The annual Aggie Follies includ ing the Aggie Players’ presenta tion of “Harvey”, will be present ed May 8-9 in Guion Hall. Theme of the Follies will be a trip around the world by Aggies. Included in the numbers for the show will be a barbershop quartet, singers, dancers, an all - male Hawiian chorus, the Singing Cadets, the Brazos Bottom Boogie Busters, and many others. The performance Friday, May 8, will be at 7 p. m. and admission charge will be 75 cents. The Fol lies will be given immediately after “Harvey” Friday. There will be a matinee Saturday of “Har vey”, and an evening show of the Follies. Tickets for the Saturday’s performances will be one dollar. Tickets bought for the Saturday show are good for both the matinee and evening performances. Johnny Samuels, chairman of the Follies committee, explained the difference in prices for the show. “We want as many to go Friday so there will be enough seats for those who want to take their par ents Saturday,” he said. “The same show will be given both days. Only the time of the performances will be changed.” Other members of the committee are Dean Howard Barlow, Dean J. P. Abbott, C. K. Esten, Ted Nark, Danny Wieland, and Bert Weller, The show is being written by Sam uels and John (Dukey) Childs, and Betty Bolander is music consult ant. Rehearsals for “Harvey” are ‘going fine,’ said Esten, faculty di rector of the play. “Everything is sunshine and roses and we will have a good show,” he said. The players will continue re hearsals through next week. A special show will be presented May 6 at Bryan Air Force Base. Square dances over WTAW will also be continued next year as a regular activity of the Center. A more extensive program of dancing classes is in the blue print stage, Samuels said, with enlarge ment of classes a definite possi bility. The MSC will have a brochure ready for distribution by Septem ber to visitors of the Center and campus, describing the building and its various functions and activities. One-Way Street Project To Relieve Congestion More one-way streets are plan ned on the campus to help move traffic with less congestion and prevent accidents, said H. W. Badgett, manager of the college physical plants. Houston St., heading out to the North Gate in front of the Col lege Station Post Office, will be Inspection Set For Army, AF Training Here Inspection of A&M’s Air and Army ROTC facilities has been scheduled for April 30 and May 1, announced Col. Joe Davis, commandant. Col. Kirk Brock ’28, PMS&T of the Dallas High School ROTC Sys tem, will inspect Army units and Col. Hugh H. Bledsoe, Air Uni versity, Maxwell AFB, Ala., will inspect Air Force units, he said. The Army inspecting team will consist of 15 officers, coming from various points in the state, while the AF team will have three offi cers from Maxwell AFB, said the Commandant. A review of the entire cadet corps is scheduled between 3 and 5 p.m. Thursday, April 30, said Col. Davis, while inspection of ca det dormitory rooms will be held Friday, May 1, between 8 and 19 a.m. Dr. David H. Morgan, dean of the college, • announced today all undergraduate classes will be dis missed on April 30 from 3 to 5 p.m. and on May 1 from 8 to 10 a.m. for the federal inspection. While not observing the review or inspecting cadet dormitory rooms, the inspecting officers will visit classrooms and check PMS&T and PAS&T records, said Col. Da vis. Phi Eta Sigma Plans Initiation Phi Eta Sigma, national honor society for freshmen, will have its annual banquet and spring initia tion Thursday, April 30 at 7 p. m. in the MSC Ballroom. Dr. Fred W. Jensen, head of the chemistry department, will be the speaker. Jensen and David H. Mor gan, dean of the college will be initiated honorary members More than 50 freshman also will be initiated. Requirments for mem bership are a grade point ratio of 2.5 or over. Tickets for the banquet are $1.75. They may be bought from Jerry Ramsey, Dormitory 9; Harri Baker, dormitory 8; Dick McCas- land, Walton Hall; Frank Ford, Dormitory 2 and Jules Vieaux, Dormitory 8. Freshmen who have been initiat ed into Phi Sigma will elect next year’s officers Thursday at 7:15 p. m. in the YMCA. Presents Proposal List By JERRY BENNETT Battalion Managing Editor President Harrington agreed last night to consider three proposals which would lead to a consolidation of the Corps of Cadets by housing freshmen with the other three classes. The proposals were presented to the president by three members of the 15-man steering committee of the junior class for 1953-54 corps policy. These members were Fred Mitchell, corps sergeant ma jor, Kurt Goode, corps operations officer, and Vol Mont gomery, junior yell leader. The first proposal asks for an eventual consolidation of the corps where all classes would live together. The second recommends the consolidation should be done starting next fall. The third recommends two trial consolidated units be set up next year in case the program could not be inacted throughout the entire corps. The committee feels these trial units would prove the advantages of a consolidated corps and help perfect it for future years. Details of the consolidation plan would have to be worked out by a. joint committee of cadets, faculty members, and administrative rep resentatives, Mitchell said. Mitchell explained the committee would co operate with the administration in any way possible to make the plan a success. Basic Division Regardless of where the fresh men are housed, the committee feels they should remain under the academic supervision of the Basic Division. In addition to the three proposals the committee also presented the president with a list of advantages a consolidated corps would have over the present system of fresh- fnen segregation. These advan tages are classified under four gen eral categories: academic, military, morale, and activity. The complete list of these pro posed advantages appears on page two. Harrington asked the committee several questions concerning the proposed consolidation. He ex plained, though, the questions were for his own information and were not intended to show criticism of the committee’s work. Under the proposed consolida tion the board (instrument for haz ing) would have to be completely abolished, Mitchell said. Goode said A&M must turn out men who can conti'ol without hazing. If men who haze underclassmen are eli minated, the standards of the school will be raised, he said. Harrington asked the three com mitteemen if they thought a man who didn’t show officer qualities by the end of his junior year should be i-emoved from the corps. Mitchell agreed by saying any man who graduates from A&M with a commission must have qualities which would enable him to care for the lives of his men. ‘Good of Country’ No man should be an officer who is not capable of leading men into battle, he said. “The good of the country comes before the good of the school,” Mitchell added. Harrington asked the three men if housing freshmen with the up perclassmen would make the fresh men feel uneasy. He said visitors who remembered when all classes lived together were amazed at the present relaxation of the freshmen. (See CHANGES, Page 5) one-way, he told the Accident Pre vention Committee yesterday. The street, immediately in front of the Postoffice, will be one-way going north, and the continuation of Houston St., past the small Y, will be one-way going South and coming on to the campus, Badgett said. Another one-way street is plan ned for Roberts St. (between the library and Bagley Hall) and Hub bard St. (between the library and the new Science Building) in the area surrounding the Cushing Me morial Library. Roberts will be one-way toward the west, while Hubbard St. will complete the semicircle at back of the Academic building and be one way going East. Bennie A. Zinn, assistant dean of men and chairman of the com mittee, said four recommendations will be made to the Campus Traf fic Committee. Besides the pro posals for the one way streets, the committee recommends: ® Allowing the Academic Build ing parking lot to have the extra entrance it has now and to be marked “Entrance Only” and “Exit Only.” ® Placing of stop signs at the Throckmorton and Jones Sts. in tersection. ® Placing speed zone signs at various points on the campus. Badgett also told the committee that every college building had been inspected recently for fire hazards and all fire extinguishers checked. Replacements and repairs are being made where necessary, he said. “All elevators have been inspect ed and will be three, times each year,” he added. Ralph Vernon of the industrial education department reported that all the engineering shops will be surveyed completely by Thursday to seek causes of accidents in these locations. Lt. Col. Robert L. Melcher, act- (See ONE-WAY, Page 5) SILVER STAR—Mrs. James H. Rives receives the Silver Star medal awarded posthumous ly to her son, 2nd Lt. David Rives, ’52. Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T, presented the med al to Mrs. Rives at the Aggie Muster review Tuesday. Mrs. Rives’ husband and her son, Fred, look on. Escorts for the Rives family ere Ross Volunteers Billy Reed (left) and Hollie Briscoe. (Phot by US Air Force) Gilchrist Says Abolish TS Academy Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist said today that the A&M System Board of Directors should abolish the Tarleton State College Academy. The State House of Representi- tives has passed a bill giving the Board the power to do away with the high school part of the A&M System junior college. Gilchrist said that the abolish ment of the academy would great ly reduce the running expense of the system because of the limited enrollment of the Academy. “In reality nothing would be abolished by the bill, but defects of the ori ginal law would be corrected,” he added. Gilchrist said that in the event that the high school courses were in enough demand they would be offered again. The bill has not yet been passed by the state senate.