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V • BAT S CELEBRATES 75th YEAR TODAY Section One Special Edition The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY LX THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 72: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (A^gieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953 Price Five Cents T 1) NA Secretary Speaks Tonight To Press Banquet John H. Muiphy, executive secre tary of the Texas Daily News papers Association, will speak on “The Press’ Responsibility to So ciety” at 7:30 tonight at the an nual Press Club Banquet and Dance. The annual affair will high light The Battalion’s 75th year of publication. The banquet is the annual awards meeting of the Press Club, which includes staff members of The Battalion, Aggieland ’53, The Southwestern Veterinarian, the Agriculturist, The Engineer and The Commentator. Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of the college, will present special awards to the editors of these publications. Gold Keys Gold keys will be awarded to staff members with three years service, silver keys to second-year men, and bronze keys to first year Itaffers. Chancellor Gihb Gilchrist will present a resolution to the stu dent newspaper commending it for its service to the college. The re solution was passed gy the A&M System Board of Directors. The Lumbermens Mutual Casulty Company will present a $100 prize award to The Battalion for win ning third place in the contest pro moting highway safety in college newspapers. Copies of today’s Battalion which contain a special 75th ani- versary section will be distribut ed to all the guests. Invocation will be given by O. C. (Putter) Jarvis, Corps Chap lain and editor of The Agricul turist. Lamar McNew former president of the MSC council, will give a vocal solo. He will be accompanied , on the piano by Miss Betty Bol- ander, MSC program consultant. ] A movie titled “The Keystone i Idea,” will be shown following the ; banquet. MSC Ballroom A dance will be held in the MSC Ballroom following the banquet, A special combo will play for the dance. Staff members of all publica- : tions, their dates or wives and several college staff members will be guests of the Press Club at j the banquet and dance. Joel Austin, co-editor of The Battalion and chairman of the Press Club executive committee, will bo master of cei’emonies. eniors Turn Rin Dance Saturday in Gro v e with May Gov. Allan Shivers Honorary Senior A&M’S NEXT PRESIDENT—VII Students Get first Group Ticket Priority First priority grops to re reive tickets for A&M’s ath letic events will be students, faculty, The Aggie Club, team legislature and athletic de partment, according to Barlow (Bones) Irvin, athletic director. The remaining tickets will be pold to people bv order of priority grounds. The first group having option on tickets after the above groups will be A&M employes and residents of Bryan and College Station desiring season tickets. Tickets will cost $14.50 and will be good for admission to any ath letic event held on the campus during the 1953-1054 school year, according to the athletic depart ment. T card holders will be included in group I, and they will receive one free ticket to each contest. Group II will consist of the gen eral public who wishes to buy sea son tickets. Group III includes those in Group I who wish to buy tickets to individual games rather than season tickets. Group IV is made up of general public who wish to buy tickets to individual games. The number of tickets will pot he limited on any game except the University of Texas game, the de- i partment said. Pyramid Engineer May Return to A&M Shivers to Get 11 on or And Speak for Steak By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor Saturday is D-Day for seniors as they wind up their cam pus social life with the gala Senior Ring Banquet and Dance. The fourth year men will dance to the music of Billy May and his orchestra after a festive banquet in Duncan Dinning Hall. Gov. Allan Shivers will speak at the banquet. Highlight of the dance will be the ring ceremony which each senior and his date hold inside a large replica of the Ag gie Senior Ring. The senior gets his ring turned around, sym bolizing graduation, and tbe girl gets a kiss. • Members of the ’53 class ap- pai’antly are forgiving Gov. Shivers for having attended the University of Texas. He will be given honorary membership in the class by President Joe B. Mattei. A certificate will proclaim the honor and a gift of a campaign hat will show the class’s appreciation for the new membei’. Oswald Carrie Thunder III, celebrated international pyramid engineer announced yesterday fi’om his house boat in Bombay Harber, that he would gladly ac cept the presidency of A&M if he could be assured the college would never go coed. The popular Calcutta socialite nervously explained to Battalion reporters he had recently received a shocking disappointment while dating a Danish night club hieress and wanted to return to surround ings he could tiust. Although his knowledge of col lege administration is lacking. Thunder explained his adeptness with a slide rule would enable him to solve all appropidation and sal ary problems. Entered A&M Bom in the Yukon in 1907, Thunder entered A&M on his psy chiatrist’s advice and immediately became the talk of the Campus Security Agency. Always showing a fraternal spiidt, he was expelled from A&M for influencing the selection of the college mascot. He then transferred to Junction where he received his degree in Pyramid Engineering. Since he had always been fasci nated by the Middle East, Thunder organized the infamous North African Construction Company which left a trail of beer" cans across the Sahara. When his attempt at air condi tioning the Egyptian sphinx fail ed, he left the country and spent three years designing tree houses for Australian aboriginies. Returning to A&M bankrupt and broke in spirit, Thunder was hir ed by the college for three years as a joke writer for midnight yell practice. Upon being exiled from Brazos County for drowning out Reveillee, he returned to Africa where he taught yells to the Mau Maus. Muster Mad On his 42nd birthday, Thunder suffered a crushed skull when the plane in which he was flying crashed in the Congo. He had been trying to attend Muster in Algeria. His mentality and endurance de flated by the accident, Thunder was unable to continue with engi- neei ing. ' Finally he found work designing and building sand tables for the Bengal Lancers. He has remained in India ever since. Thunder promised if he became, president of A&M he would have Thursday’s drill broadcast over a national hookup and substitute Bul ly’s statue with one of his prize Egyptain mummies. He would also like to build a zoo in the lot across from the New Area. CS Starts Clean-Up For Spring It’s Spring in College Sta tion, and the city’s annual Clean-Up Drive will be May 24-29. Residents who have any thing they want to throw away can put it in front of their houses Tuesday, May 26, or Wednesday, May 27, and city trucks will pick it up and haul it away, said City Mana ger Ran Boswell. “We want everyone to help us clean up the city,” said Boswell. After the Clean-Up Drive, the city will begin spraying to kill mosquitoes. Billy May Unique Music Master Follies, Play Draw Nearly $1,600 About $1,600 of tickets were sold to the Aggie Follies and the play “Harvey,” said Arts and Sciences Councilman John S. Samuels to the Intercouncil Committee Monday. The income from the ticket sales will be divided between the Aggie players, producers of “Harvey” and the student academic councils. The committee set next Tues- | day, May 19, for the Aggie Follies Committee to meet and decide ho\V the money will be distributed. The Honor Code entered the Intercouncil’s discussion again to day. Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of arts and sciences; Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of engineering; and Dr. Charles N. Shepardson, dean of agriculture, all agreed that further action on the code must come from J the students. Council to Elect Commentator Editor Monday The Arts and Sciences Council will elect the 1953-54 editor of The Commentator at 7 p. m. Monday in the MSC Senate Chamber. Bob Hendry, junior business ad ministration major from San An tonio, is the only candidate to file for editor of the publication. He is a staff writer for the Commenta tor and news editor of The Bat talion. Dan Dawson. junior English major from Dallas, and Bill Young, junior economics major from Dal las, will run as co-editor’s. Both are staff writers on the publica tions. Dawson also is a staff writer on The Battalion. This is the first year that any of the three has worked on the magazine. The Commentator, official magazine of the School of Arts Invocation By Jarvis Invocation at the banquet will be given at 6 p. m. by Corps Chap lain O. C. (Putter) Jarvis. Heading the program will be presentation of Varsity Fair win ners by Aggieland ’53 Co-Editors Harvey (Spider) Miller and Guy Delaney. Awards to seniors named to Who’s Who will follow. Joe Sorrels, professor of civil engi neering and chairman of the Stu dent Life Committee, will give Who’s Who keys to 23 seniors. The class history will be read next by Bert Weller, historian, followed by the address from Gov. Shivers. Subject of^ his talk has not been announced. Dance In Grove The benediction will be given by Charles Beagle, chaplain of the third division. ' The dance will get underway at 8 p. m. in The Grove. If bad weather prevails, it will be moved to Sbisa Hall. The ring replicas will be repair ed and repainted today by a com mittee headed by Don Buckner. Decorations in The Grove also will include a cardboard facimile of the senior ring and Japanese lanterns will be strung over the dancing area. Tickets to the dance are still available at the Student Activi ties office for $6, said Mattei. Tickets to the banquet are sold out. Mattei estimated over 600 had been sold at $1.50 a plate. Proceeds will go to the class fund which will be used to pay for a gift to the college, the president added. ‘Coffee Classes’ Highlights SLC Agenda The betterment of student- professor relations through “coffee classes” will be dis cussed again at the Student Life Committee meeting at 4 p. m. Monday in the MSC Senate Chamber. ' i' r Dr. C. W. Landiss and Lyle Wolfskill will give the report for the Student - Faculty Relations Committee. “Coffee classes” are in operation now at the Univei’sity of Wisjconsion. Joel Austin will give a report on the woYk done by the Constitution Committee. Results of the All-College Cal ender Meeting will be discussed by C. G. (Spike) White. White will also lead the consideration of McCuistion Court Case Is Dropped The Senior Court Case against H. Dwan McCuistion, Squadron 14 junior, has been dropped, according to Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant. McCuistion’s group commander requested that four unjustifiable demerit’s be removed. This auto matically removes McCuistion from the excessive demerit list and ren ders the Senior Court decision null and void, Wilkins said. The Senior Court campused Mc Cuistion until next Christmas for having 13 excessive demerits. Thirty-nine is the maximum num ber of demerits allowed juniors be fore Senior Cpurt action is begun. McCuistion has compiled a total of 20 demerits and 16 hours this semester. He has signed in for 12 of the hours, but these are not de ducted from his total of 16, Davis said. The sign-in tours are considered punishment for excessive demerits, he added. In other words, a student can not remove extra duty hours from his record by walking them off oi* by signing in. Once recorded, they are a permanent part of his file. The 16 hours McCuistion has re ceived total 32 demerits, which, added to his 20 demerits, total 52 demerits. This is 13 more than the maximum of 39 “rams” juniors are allowed. Ylore Rain Seen For This Area Heavy thundershowers and ainshowers with little change in temperature will continue through this afternoon and quests for allocation of Studeni night ’ the CAA Weather Bu- Activities Funds. * W. D. (Pete) Hardesty is re sponsible for the report of the oi-ganizational meeting schedule study. At 5 p. m., group picture of the Student Life Committee will be made in the MSC Lounge for the Aggieland ’53. Military students are requested to weai- number two uniform. Non - military students and staff members are requested to wear a tie, said White, Secre tary Student Life Committee. Gibson, Cleghorn Get Jobs in Idaho Eugene H. Gibson, senior horti- offici 1 I cu l ture major and Leonard V. Cleghorn, senior animal husbandry , 0 . - - major will leave College Station and Sciences, originated in the fall .. oq f • . T i tj i. , * j * i. . j May 28 for Priest Lake, Idaho, of 1947. It is today s counterpart 1 ’ of the old Battalion magazine. It is published four times a year, in the months of October, January, March and May. This year’s editor is Arvis Noak, J senior per-law major from Round | Top. The Arts and Sciences Council, which will elect the editor, is com posed of representatives from every club in the School of Arts and Sciences. Dean J. P. Abbott is advisor to the group. They are to be employed by the USDA in the blister rust control program in government forests in Idaho. Film Society Plans Summer Program A French movie, “Grand Illus ion,” and a German movie, “Chris tina,” will be shown by the A&M Film Society during the summer session, said Jerry Bennett, vice president of the club. The films will carry English sub-titles, said Bennett. reau at Easterwood airport report ed this morning. About 4 inches of rain had fallen through 6:30 a.m. today but anoth- er three inches of rain is expected from today’s showers. The minimum temperature re corded yesterday at the bureau was 54, the maximum 62 degrees. The Associated Press reports that raincoat weather prevailed over a wide band between New England and Eastern Texas and there were scattered showers over most of the Western states. A number of thunderstorms drenched parts of the Lower Mis sissippi Valley, bringing 1.48 inch es of rain to Shreveport, La., and 1.04 inches to Evansville, Ind., in a 24-hour period. Sunny weather dominated the Central and Northern plains and much of the Rockies, where tem- peratures were warm. It was sum mery in the Southeast where Jack sonville. Fla., and Charleston, S.C., reported maximum mercury read ings of 92 Thursday. Anderson Voted President Student A» Council Refers Honor Code The Agriculture Council passed Of CHS Student Council Permanent Fence Now Around Farms A permanent fence is now being constructed around the entire Col lege farm, according to C. K. Fred Anderson, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Norman Ander- ... son, 208 Timber, was elected Student Council president of i a 111011011 to i^fer the honor code A&M Consolidated High School for next year. Other officers elected in Wednesday’s election were year- book editor Jerry Holmes, son of Mrs. Pauline Holmes, 311 Fidelity; senior business manager of the yearbook. Penny Laverty, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Carroll Laverty, 503 An gus. Junior business manager of the yearbook, Elsie Richards, continuation to next year’s coun cil. Tom Payne of the agronomy de partment made the motion that the council go on record as leaving the honor code problem to next year’s group. The code did not receive as much daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Richards, Route 3; senior su PP ort from the school of Agri engineer yell leaders, Carolyn Landiss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl as ' vas expected. W T nnHicc 80^ o«r1 Tonlsx* T AD- tore, its continuation for n< oon by Bob Hendry Oswald Carrie Thunder III "Beer Cans Across the Sahara” Leighton, construction for A&M Physical Plants. W. Landiss. 803 Dexter, and Janice Latimer, daughter of Mr. The fence is being built for both ; ar id Mrs. V. M. Latimer, 506 Gilchrist; junior yell leaders, protective and useful reasons and | Jean Puddy, daughter of Air. and Airs. Tom G. Puddy, 1505 try to pass any resolution on the will add a great deal of value to Sulphur Springs, Helen Ross, daughter Of Air. and Airs. Em- ! matter because of the short time the farm, said Leighton. mett Ross, Route 1. 1 remaining this school year. There- next year was questioned. The council did not feel It should
