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sr 62: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
/ght Trainee-Elect
ity Get Priority
I
Tf ^priority” for advanced
' ROTC contracts will
electing flight training
Heat l(,uation, according to a
earing in Aair Poire
Tala v, April[ 25.
iber of A&M Air Force
cadets who will be in-
any : switch with the
^ vho will not receive Air
L (racts as a result of the
, is not known by mili-
bl [rities here, said Col. Joe
commandant of cadets,
ce Times is a weekly
dealing with news and
of the USAF. It fe not
publication.
iuty jobs in the future
will be “more and more
the article continued,
i for ground jobs is ex-
te very keen.
[lady enrolled in advanc-
laining will not be af-
he change, according to
dcians Considered
. the article said, there
ons to the new policy.
students enrolled in
inical fields will be ad-
advanced Air Force
;racts as well as stud-
prior military service.
3 represents an attempt
mi Call
t Grads
in 120 Day
i all non-veteran Air
a rC graduates will be
luty between 30 and
)f commissioning ac-
» information releas-
^.ir University,
mts to active duty will
n the: following order,
vidua,Is appointed as
vice officers.
■ men ,who have applied
• Air Force Institute of
training.
|y commissioned officers
fegrees in physics, elec-
phases of engineering,
statistics, accounting,
ed management and re-
ers who will be proces-
•kland AFB for entry
: the tnahy Air Fprce
ainting courses,
ther officers will be as-
’cordance with their re
specialties.
s possible, the release
•eteran officers who ap-
ve duty will be furnish-
e assignment instruc-
■ same manner as HOn-
duates.
Dance,
net Ticket
- Begins
^ing Dance and Ban-
^ts will go on sale
in the Office of Stu-
4 L sroc a ^ s ° s °^
ries by Scrut Rawlings,
n'th and Harold Hud-
ce tickets will cost $G
ig, and banquet tickets
|uet will be highlighted
)0ms is critfch by Governor Allen
d the presentation of
tember exb at A&M and Vanity
s. The banquet will be
! beyond Sto. ni. May Hi in Duncan
ind their dates will
le music of Billy May
,‘chestra at the Senior
ill thG N f e. It is scheduled at 8
lf> in*The Grove.
} theSC CfO'ickets for the dance will
Saturday in The Agri-
lementary ffice in Goodwin Hall.
ices are $1.50 for the
OUT childri or the second and 50
ae third.
tant perl—
Pan' Play
for Kiivanis
Scho
ege ; Station Kiwanis
day saw a performance
hm” given by the A&M
■d kindergarden chil-
> Lyle is teacher of the
play was adopted from
rie’s book by Mrs. Sue
to guarantee enough Air Force
fliers. The observer training pro
gram is in especially desperate
shape, the article said.
The number of sophomore Air
ROTC students taking physical
examinations at Bryan AFB was
341. Of this group, 232 had the
physical requirements for flying.
Thirteen men of the flying group
were approved for observer Gain
ing, but could not pass the pilot
physical.
More than 70 cadets were asked
for general seiwice in the Air
Force,' which means they are phy
sically fit to receive Air Force
commissions.
Twenty-five cadets did not pass
either the flight or general service
examination. These cadets are not
eligible for either Army or Air
Force ROTC contracts.
Photography
Contest Set
By Battalion
The Battalion will sponsor
a photography contest for
freshmen, sophomores and
juniors, said Joel E. Austin
and Frank N. Manitzas, co
editors of the paper.
All entries must be in The
Battalion office on the second
floor of Goodwin Hall by 5
p. m. May 14, they said. First
and second place prizes will
be given.
The rules are that the per
son who takes the picture
must do his own processing
and make the entry in his own
name, said the co-editors.
A committee of five staff
members from The Battalion
will judge the pictures on ori
ginality, quality and subject
matter, they said.
General Election Is Tomorrow;
Ballot Lists 189 Candidates
Federal Inspection
Begins Thursday
A team of 15 army and three air
force officers will conduct the an
nual Federal Inspecttion of the
Corps of Cadets.
The inspection is scheduled for
Thursday and Friday.
It will be divided into three
principal phases: class room in
spection; dormitory inspection; and
a graded corps review.
The review will be held at 3:35
p.m. Thursday, with first call set
for 3:30 p.m.
Dormitory inspection will be held
from 8 a.m* to 9:45 a.m. Friday.
Break for Lunch
Classroom inspections will be
held on Thursday from 9 a.m. to
11:50 a.m. After a break for
lunch the team will continue its
classroom inspections from 1 p.m.
to 2:50 p.m.
These inspections will begin at
10 a.m. on Friday and last until
11:50 a.m. They will continue at
1 p.m.-3 p.m.
A critique to close the inspection
will be held from 3-4 p.m. Fri
day.
Number, one khaki uniform will
be worn for. the review. White
gloves will n^. be wont. .Juniors,
sophomores, and fi'eshmen will
wear khaki tiesl All seniofs and
staff juniors wall wear green ties.
Seniors will wear boots; Qualified
cadet officers will carry sabers.
Colors and guidons will be carried.
Army units will carry rifles.
The inspecting officers for the
Air Force include: Col. Hugh Bled-
soe, Lt. Cpl. Owen H. Seatz, and
Maj. Clyde H. Rogan. Bledsoe is
chief of the Air Force inspection
team.
Air University
The team is from The Air Uni
versity, Montgomery, Ala.
Inspecting officers for the army
and the branch they will inspect
are as follows: Col. K. B. Brock,
chief; Col. N. H. Ellis, engineers;
Lt. Col. L. H. Huggins, infantry;
Lt. Col. J. N. Cole, signal corps;
Lt. Col. C. Louseth, ordnance; Lt.
Col. W. C. Burton, transportation
corps.
Maj. H. Sheriff, chemical corps;
Maj. O. Greenwood, quartermaster
corps; Maj. A. W. Bloss, armor;
Maj. F. Naun, artillery; Capt. O.
Denny, anti-aircraft artillery;
Capt. J. M. Mathis, army security
agency; Capt. R. L. Taylor, Capt.
T. H. Collins, and Maj. H. G.
Thompson of the Texas Military
District.
Town Hall
Staff for Fall
Begins Duties
Next year’ 8 Town . Hall Enter
tainment Committee, headed by
student entertainment manager
John Akard, officially took over
its new duties Monday night at a
steak fry given by C. G. (Spike)
White, Assistant Dean of Men for
Student Activities, at his home.
Other members of next year’s
staff are: John Hildebrand, Bill
Young, Jerry Griffith, Louis Driv
er, Ronnie Hudson, Ricky Black
and Joe Warrick.
Gifts of 78 and 45 r. p. m. re
cords and “The Story of A&M”
book were given to the outgoing
staff. Keys were presented to the
new committee.
Outgoing officers are: Lyle
Wolfskill, manager, Guy Shown,
Earl Beavers, Don Carroll, Darrell
Roberts, Weldon Kruger, Bill High-
smith and Bill Hegmann.
Guests at the steak fry were:
Joe H. Sorrels, professor of civil
engineering, Bill Turner, music di
rector, Carl Tishler, head of the
physical education department,
Tom Buddy, Guion Hall manager,
Joel Austin and Frank Manitzas,
co-editors of The Battalion, Ed
Holder and Jerry Bennett, Bat
talion managing editors Joe Wal
lace, Joe Mattei and Fred Mitchell.
MSC to Show
'Satevepost'
Art Exhibit
An exhibition of 32 original
covers and illustrations from
The Saturday Evening Post,
showing some of the best-
liked literary characters by
contemporary American artists,
opened today in the MSC, said Mrs.
Ralph Terry, director of the MSC
Art Gallery.
The collection of paintings will
be exhibited through May 11, and
vdll be on view to the public on
weekdays and Sundays.
The exhibition, which is current
ly on a tour of the United States
and Canada, was assembled by The
Curtis Publishing Co. in response
to requests from universities, aid
schools, art groups and art in
stitutes.
Kenneth Stuart, art editor of
The Saturday Evening Post, select
ed the paintings as good represen
tatives of illustration art.
The works of 25 well-known ill
ustrators are in the exhibition.
They are Constantin Alajalov,
John Atherton, Jaines Bingham,
Melbom-ne Brindle, Gilbert Bundy,
Douglass Crockwell, Floyd Davis
and Stevan Dohanos.
Albert Dome, John Falter, Ro
bert Fawcett, Glenn Grohe, George
Hughes, Fred Ludekens, A1 Parker,
Robert Riggs, Norman Rockwell,
Amos Sewell Mead Schaeffer, Al
bert Staehle, Ben Stahl, Thornton
Utz, Harold Von Schmidt, Jack
Welsh and Coby Whitmore.
Students to Receive
$2,833 in Awards
Hand work and high grade point
ratios will be rewarded this spr
ing Muth a total of $2,833 in
scholax’ships.
' . The Manners were picked by the
Faculty Committee in ?Scholar-
ships and other selecting agencies.
Those honored will r-eceive the fin
ancial grants of their awards dur
ing the coming school year.
The annual $500 Krueger award
goes to Everett D. Besch, College
Station, who will graduate next
June in veterinary medicine. Besch
is a married veteran whose GI
benefits expire this year. He is a
member of Phi Zeta, served as as
sociate editor of The Southwestern
Veterinarian last year and has a
grade point fatio of 2.72. He is
employed in the Cotton Research
Laboratory and also in the veteri
nary parasitology department.
Banta Award
Bobby Wayne Damron of Bogata,
junior in agricultural administra
tion and a member of A Infantry,
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RINGS ON THEIR FINGERS—Members of the Senior Ring Dance Committee look over
plans for the May 16 affair. Committee members are (left to right) Social Secretary
Charles (Bubba) Blank, Bob Harper, Charles (Scrut) Rawlins, Tom (Moose) Kelley, Gene
Sparks, Malcolm Dimmitt, Bob Hutchinson. (Photo by Cole.)
Fifty Juniors Are Running
In Senior Senator Contest
One hundred and eighty-nine students have filed for pos
itions in the General Student Election to be held Thursday
Balloting will be conducted from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at boxes
set up by the Post Office entrance in the MSC.
Those who have filed for various positions and the num
ber to be elected are as follows:
Co-Editors of The Battalion (2)
—Jerry Bennett and Ed Holder.
Co-Editors of The Aggieland ’54
(2)—Barent C. Dutcher and Allan
(Bootsie) Hohlt.
Senior Student Senators (15)—
Bob Palmer, Stan Bell, Chuck
Neighbors, Pat Brown, Glenn
Blake, Jim Sojourner, Ted Nark,
Charles Hlavinka, A. L. (Corkey)
Crowley, Clancy Woliver, Bill
Young, Ide Trotter, Tom Rat-
cliffe, Vol. Montgomery, Ralph
Mathis, Thomas Reese.
Wesley E. Gross, T. B. Field,
Donald Davis, Don Anderson, Dick
Black, John Farrell, Larry W.
Hoffman, Ronnie Hudson, Ed
Keeling, Bob Manner, Bill Reed,
Gil Stribling, Joe Warrick, H. B.
Zachry, Wayne Bradford, Ted Upt-
more, Carroll Phillips, Blake Love
lace, Andy Gary.
Denny Cole, Jake Magee, Harry
Wright, Norman Sliva, Hugh Phil-
ippus, Lary Milrany, Melvin Long-
hofer, Larry Joyce, Buddy Fox-
Avorth, Chuck Fenner, Joe Braden,
John Akard, Louis Casimir, Lee
Hahnfeld, Burt Holdsworth, Bob
Johnson, Elmer Kilgore, Billy Mo
bley, B. P. Pantuso, Lester Smith,
Roy Sullivan, Bob Vernon, Bill
Williams, Bill Brown.
Bill Shepard, Hal' Hegi, Bill
Dai’k, Louie Capt, Dutch Zaeske,
Carl Wilson, John Seat, Leo Muel
ler, J. A. Matush, J. L. Ledwig,
Lee Haviland, Marvin Foi-d, Leo
Draper, Bo Bolmanski, Dan Daw
son, Roy Hickman, Andrew Hud
son, Joe Jerry Jones, EdMdn Leh-
nert.
Robert Mousa, Arthur J. Raney,
Alan E. Soefje, Eddie L. Thomp
son and Joe B. Whitaker.
Junior Student Senator (10)—
Tommy Schmidt, Herbert Barnard,
Donald Roth, Bob Wright, Earl
Pike, Mac Moore, Tad Leifeste,
Wallace Eversberg, John Buxton,
John Benefield, Cookie Brannen,
Bill Coleman, Monte Curry, Frank
Ford, Taylor Greene, Bill Hueteel.
Joe King, John L. Leimbrook,
Gordon E. Tate, Gerald Van Hoo-
sier, Jerry D. Hawsey, Howard
Childers, Charlie Seely, Tom Stev
ens, John Pelt, Garrett Maxwell,
Don Darsey, Roberto Tijerina, Rob
ert Alcock, Delano Castle, Fair
Colvin Jr., James F. Dempsey.
Jon KinsloMq Harold Fox, Clar
ence Hatcher, Buck Isbell, Dave
Lane, Dick McCasland, Don Wesch,
Pat Wheat, Dusty Canon, Jimmy
Johnson, Cullen Davis, Jerry Pyle,
(See FRIDAY’S, Page 4)
Proposed Rules
For Elections
Go to Senate
Proposed rules regarding
election run-offs will be sub
mitted by the Election Com
mission to the Student Senate
for its approval, said C. R.
(Bubba) Blank, chairman.
The proposed rules , are as fol-
Ioavs:
“For a man to be elected out
right without a run-off, he must
have a total of 20 per cent of the
total votes cast for that office in
excess of the next highest man’s
number of votes.
“In case of a run-off, there M T ill
be three men in the run-off if more
than five men are running for that
office. There will be two men in
the run-off if five men or less
are running for that office”.
“If two men only ai-e running
for one office, the man with the
highest number of votes will be
elected.”
The next Student Senate meet
ing is scheduled for May 7.
has been awarded the Albert D.
Banta ,aM r ard of $300 for 1953-54.
He has earned all of his college ex
penses. He is vice-president of the
Red River Club, a member of
several agricultural clubs, Ross
Volunteers, fencing team and has
a grade point ratio of 1.87.
The Jesse H. Jones Reward for
Achievement of $333, goes to Mar
cus A. Hoelscher of Rowena. He
is a junior in agricultural educa
tion who has personally financed
his way through three years of
college. He is Mmrking at the sheep
barns and caiuying a full scholas
tic load. His grade point ratio ave
rage is 1.43. He holds and advanced
ROTC contract, is a member of
the San Angelo club, 4-H and FFA
clubs and the Newman club.
Faculty Exchange
Frank M. Fuschak of Route 3,
Bryan, M^as named winner of the
$100 Brazos County A&M Mothers’
Club Award. He is a junior in in
dustrial education M'ith a grade
point ratio of 1.59 and has fin
anced himself with employment in
the College Library, at the Faculty
Exchange, and at the Dairy Queen
in Bryan.
Lolan M. Pullen of Lometa,
sophomore in the School of Liberal
Arts, won the $200 Lulie Hughey
Lane award given by the Texas
Society, United States Daughters
of 1812. He is a member of Phi
Eta Sigma, Land O’ Lakes Club,
the Singing Cadets, and is employ
ed in the Duncan Dining Hall.
Scholarship Award
The Fort Worth A&M Mothers’
Club has chosen Jerry Don Cobb,
freshman, as Manner of its scholar
ship award of $200 for the 1953-
54 school year. He is majoring in
M r ild life management.
The Mosher Steel Co., of Dallas
and Houston, has selected two Man
ners of the W. S. Mosher Memorial
Awards. Each Mali receive $G00,
divided between his junior and sen-
ion years.
Winners are Kenneth S. Burle
son of Groesbeck and Travis
Gerald Wunderlich of 5315 Wunder
Lane, Houston. Both are sopho
mores in civil engineering.
Indian Writer
Tours Campus
Pushkar Oza, an agricultural re
presentative from India, toured
the college facilities Tuesday ob
serving the editorial services of
fered by the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
Consolidated
Gets Top Music
Contest Rating
A&M Consolidated Elemen
tary School Orchestra and
Band were given first division
ratings in the elementary area
music meet held here Satur
day. Division 1 is superior rating.
Participating schools were Nava-
sota, Bremond, LaGrange and A&
M Consolidated. Other Division I
winnei’s M 7 ere the Bremond Choir,
Navasota Sextette and NaA^asota
Solo. Division II classification
above aA^erage rating was given
the A&M Consolidated Choi?', the
Navasota Gilds’ Glee Club and the
LaGi'ange Choir. No gi’oups wei’e
placed in lower divisions.
The meet was co-directed by W.
T. Riedel and J. J. Skidvanek, both
of College Station. Directoi’s of
contesting groups were Mrs. M. B.
Foste?’, Bi'emond; Miss Maltha
Helen Coi'd, LaGi’ange; Mrs.
Carolyn Droze, Navasota; Robert
Boone, A&M Consolidated Choir
and Colonel R. J. Dunn, A&M Con
solidated instrumental group.
Judges M’ere Robert L. Henke,
assistant conductor of the Bryan
Air Force Band, Joseph Lanzil-
lotti, conductor of the BAFB Band
and Mrs. H. A. Luther, piano
teacher at College Station.
A similar meet is planned for
next spring and all interested
schools in this area may partici
pate.
Upholstering
Readies MSC
For Summer
Terrace furniture at the
MSC has a new look of gaiety
in keeping with the approach
ing outdoor activity season.
Cushions on the ornament
al iron furniture on the second
floor terrace have been reuphols
tered M r ith neiy plastic covering.
This material is designed for longer
outdoor Avear and Avill not fade like
conventional cloth materials.
The Avork was done by Faustino
Rosas, commercial upholsterer
from Bryan.
The previous cloth cushions were
damaged extensively Avhen flying
sparks from the Thanksgiving bon
fire settled over the area and burn
ed the material, said Mrs. Helen
Atterbury, personnel director in the
MSC. The cushions also had faded
from their long life in the sun on
the terrace, she said.
Faded material on lounge furni
ture inside the Center has been
renovated, too, , Mrs. Atterbury
said. Cloth from faded areas was
removed, turned oA’er and reuphols
tered.
Most maintenance work needed
is done by the Maintenance Depart
ment of the MSC and much ex
pense is saved in so doing, Mrs.
Atterbury added.
Texas ROTC
Cadets Visit
Ft. Hood Soon
More than 300 Texas ROTC
cadets and 100 instructors will
visit Fort Hood next weekend.
They will be guests of the First
Armored Division for ROTC Day.
The cadets and instructors Mall
inspect facilities at the fold, ob
serve maneuvers and inspect equip
ment displays.
Twenty A&M signal corps cadets
visited Fort Hood last Friday and
studied signal corps activities in an
armored unit. Maj. C. J. Dominique
briefed the students prior to the
tour.
Capt. S. R. James Jr., A&M in
structor, accompanied the cadets.
Delayed Duty Is
Asked by Seniors
Approximately 80 per cent of
the 275 Army seniors receiving
commissions this June haA’e in
dicated a desire to M’ait until
June, 1954, before being called to
active duty, said the Army Com-
missioning Section.
Only 15 Air Force seniors have
applied for delayed active duty,
according to the Air Force Com
missioning Section. Most of those
applying want to continue their
academic studies. One hundred and
eighty Air Force seniors are ex
pected to be commissioned this
year.
The newly - commissioned Air
Force officers will be called to
active duty after 30, 60, or 90
days. All expect to be serving by
June of next year.
Weather Today
ifis
WINDY
WEATHER TODAY: Blowing
dust and occasional strong udnds.
The Avinds will shift to the north-
northAvest later today. The rain
fall recorded at the Easterwood
airport last night was 5.03 inches.