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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