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Number 112: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
Basic Division
Adds Instructors
By JERRY ESTES
Basic Division Editor
Two instructors have been added
this year to the basic division staff.
They are Robert E. Miller and
Clay E. George. Miller is a psy-
chometrist with an MA degree
from Boston university. He is the
first professional psychometrist
employed by A&M.
George is a reading clinician. He
holds a BA degree from Arizona
State college and an MA from the
University of Arizona. George was
a Marine in Korea and World War
II. He was discharged in February
1952.
Miller’s duties are testing stu
dents in vocational and personality
aspects. Students do not have to
be in the basic division to make
use of these facilities.
George will be in charge of re
medial reading. This course is to
help entering students improve
their reading speed and compre
hension.
Frank E. McFarland returned
after a year’s leave of absence to
complete graduate work at Colum
bia university. He received his MA
degree in guidance and started
work on his PhD. McFarland at
tended Columbia on a faculty fel
lowship.
Only two of these fellowships
were given to faculty members
from the United States and several
foreign countries. One was given
to a male teacher and one to a
female teacher. McFarland is a
personal and vocational counselor.
Other members of the basic div
ision are John R. Bertrand, dean;
C. H. Ransdell, assistant to the
dean; A. J. Kingston, director of
guidance; S. Auston Kerley, as
sociate director of guidance.
A. E. (Buddy) Denton, vocation
al and remedial reading counselor;
and W. Dee Kutach, vocational
counselor.
Basic division offices in the Ag
gieland Inn are being remodeled
and expanded. Parts of the second
floor will be converted from hotel
rooms to offices and testing labs.
The vocational reading library
will be moved to the second floor
along with Miller’s and Kingston’s
offices. Dean’s offices and remedial
reading facilities will remain on
the first floor.
Morse Plans
Trip to A&M
On Tuesday
True D. Morse, under secre
tary of agriculture, will ad
dress the faculty and stu
dents of the School of Agri
culture Tuesday.
Following a meeting with
C. N. Shepardson, dean of
agriculture, Morse will attend
an informal coffee at 4 p. m.
in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
The coffee is open to the
staff of the School of Agri
culture, the Agricultural
Economics club, the Rural So
ciology club, and all agricul
ture majors.
Morse will return to Wash
ington Tuesday night after a
dinner with college officials.
New AF Plan Here
Reduces Personnel
A&M’s air force ROTC unit is
operating with almost half the
number of air force personnel it
had last year.
The unit had 23 officers and 23
enlisted men last year. Nbw it has
16 officers and 11 airmen. The air
force alloted A&M 18 officers this
year, said Maj. Luther Westbrook,
public informati-on -officer. West
brook said the overall cut in air
force personnel might have caused
the delay in supplying the other
two men. ...
The drop in. A&M’s air force
staff was caused by the new air
science courses, Westbrook ex
plained. Last year, advanced air
science students could enroll in
sepatate AFROTC courses. This
year there is one general advanced
air science course.
Since the separate courses have
been abolished, fewer instructors
(vere needed, Westbrook explained.
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The AFROTC here has lost one
instructor due to the recent cut in
to air force funds and personnel.
He is Capt. John Scheffel.
Army Reserve Will
Offer Information
Army ROTC cadets and non
military students interested in the
army reserve may receive informa
tion about this organization from
M/Sgt. Harold E. Hill, chief clerk
of the unit advisor.
Hill will be located in Room 108
of the military department build
ing from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m. the
week of Sept. 21. No student par
ticipating in AFROTC is eligible
for the army reserve.
Weather Today
CLOUDY
Cloudy today; possibly light
rain tomorrow. Low this
morning 67, expected high 92;
low tonight 67,
Here’s what happened, accord
ing to A&M air force'sources.
When Congress chopped off five
billion dollars from the air force
budget, the service was forced to
cut its planned 143 wings to 120.
■ The air force had too many men
for 120 wings. It first planned to
discharge 12,500 men, but changed
the cut to 10,000. Approximately
half of these were discharged for
having a low efficiency rating.
The rest could sign up for in
definite duty or leave the service.
Scheffel did not sign.
Four Cars;
Two Accidents,
On Roberts St.
Four cars were involved
yesterday morning in two ac
cidents, both on Roberts
street.
The first occurred at Nagle and
Roberts streets, the second at Ro
berts and Spence. Roberts St. runs
in front of the new engineering
building.
Both occurred about 8 a. m.
A parked car was named as the
cause for the first incident. A 1951
Mercury driving north on Nagle
hit a 1950 Chevrolet pick-up truck
which was moving west on Roberts.
The driver of the Mercury was a
student. He told the campus se
curity office he could not see the
car coming since there was an
other car parked on the edge of the
road.
A 1953 Ford hit a 1941 Oldsmo-
bile in the second accident. Both
cars entered the intersection at 15
m. p. h., the campus security said.
The Ford hit the Oldsmobile’s
left front fender. The Ford’s right
front fender was bent.
The Oldsomobile was driven by
a professor and the Ford by a stu
dent.
Campus security did not disclose
the names of the persons involved.
State Increases
Teacher Pensions
Texas is doubling its contribu
tion to teachers’ retirement by an
act of the 53rd legislature.
Previously the state matched
dollar for dollar the amount teach
ers contributed to the retirement
fund.
Because of surplus funds, the
state is now able to give retiring
teachers double the amount they
pay. _
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TRAVELIN’ MAN—Dr. Dan Russell, agricultural econom
ics and rural sociology department, has returned recently
from a month-long tour of Europe. 'He made the trip to
accompany a shipment of food and cattle sent by Texas
churches of all denominations to European refugees.
Special Student Senate
Election Set Tuesday
News Briefs
Aggieland '’53 Expected Soon
FIRST SHIPMENT of the Ag
gieland ’53 is expected to arrive the
first week of October. Allan Hohlt,
co-editor of this year’s Aggieland,
said just the first shipment will
be in then.
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THE CIVIL ENGINEERING de
partment will hold its 27th annual
highway short course Sept. 30—
Oct. 1 in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom. Fred J. Benson
will be director.
* *
DR. R. E. PATTERSON, vice
director of the Agricultural Ex
periment station, returned Tues
day from a field day at the Gon
zales sub-station. The employes
there showed a series of agricul
tural displays.
* * *
LT .COL. WILLIE T. ELLIS ’27
has arrived in Japan for assign
ment with headquarters of the
Southwestern command. Ellis,
World War II veteran, has been
serving with the 44th Engineer
Construction group in Korea since
August, 1952.
* * *
ANYONE INTERESTED in sell
ing football programs at the Uni
versity of Houston garpe here Sept.
26 can see Pete; Hardesty, business
manager of student activities in
the student activities office. Stu-
journalism Majors
Do Field Work
Thirty percent of A&M journal
ism majors spent the summer
working in their profession.
The boys did an excellent job,
said D. D. Burchard, head of the
journalism department.
“In many cases they could have
stayed permanently if they had
not been hired just for the sum
mer,” he said.
Three students worked under the
internship program sponsored by
the Texas Daily Newspaper as
sociation. Under this plan the as
sociation places junior journalism
students on its member newspapers
during the summer.
Bids Now Taken
On College Cars
Students are eligible to place
bids on 12 automobiles being sold
by the A&M system.
Bids can be submitted to the
comptroller’s office, room 201, sys
tem administration building, for
any one or all of the automobiles.
The deadline for bids on the first
group of six automobiles is Sept.
22.
Regulations governing the sale
of the automobiles can be obtained
at the comptroller’s office. The
automobiles may be seen at the
system motor pool north of the
clothing warehouse.
Extension Employes
Speak at Lufkin
Six Agriculture Extension ser
vice employes spoke at an ex
tension district meeting in Lufkin
Sept. 14-15.
Attending the meeting were Jr
D. Prewit, associate director fcf.
agriculture extension; Miss Glad,of
Martin, state home demonstratdys
agent; Mrs. Bernice Claytor, hdion
management specialist; M pme
Maeona Cox, food and nutriji s s
specialist; Mrs. Eloise Johnjtion
family life education specialist jison,
Miss Mary Routh, clothing spi* and
list* ecia-
The student is deferred from RO
TC summer camp.
Students under this plan, their
positions and the papers for which
they worked were Gardner Collins,
advertising, Houston Press; Joe
Hipp reporter, San Antonio Ex
press; and Jerry Bennett, reporter
Fort Worth Press.
Other students working on
papers were Calvin Pigg, report'/"*
Refugio Timely Remarks;
Ashlock, editor, Pecos Enterp^™
Ham Baker, editor, Marfr ,r ^ se !
Bend Sentinel; C. C. Big
Neighbors, advertising, -l!Chuck)
(Penn.) Era; and Ed Sta 1 'Bradford
er, Fort Worth Press. ™, report-
Non-Military Senators
Needed for Three Dorms
A special election of non - military student senators for
dormitories 2 and 4 and P. G. hall will be held from 8 a. m.
to 5 p. m. Tuesday.
The Election commission called the special election because
of the change of some dormitories from military to non- mili
tary student quarters.
Dormitories 2 and 4 housed military students when the
class elections were held last year. They since have been
changed to non - military student housing dormitories, and
therefore have to have non-military representatives.
P. G. Hall has been changed
from a non - military dormi
tory to a post-graduate hous
ing unit, requiring a post
graduate representative.
Filing for these positions opens
at 8 a. m. Friday in the student
activities office in Goodwin hall,
and closes at 5 p. m. Monday.
Election booths will be set up
Tuesday morning in the Memorial
Student Center. The results of the
election will be printed Wednesday
in The Battalion.
College Regulations require a
student senator to have a grade
point ratio of 1.0 or better and
be at least a classified sophomore,
except in the case of the fresh
man class vice-president.
He must have attended A&M
for the two previous semesters
except in the cast of the freshman
class vice-president. If represent
ing non - military, college apart
ments or day students, he must
live in the dormitory or area he re
presents during his term in of
fice.
He also must be willing to serve
for two semesters.
The Election commission held
election of officers yesterday. Leo
Draper, senior mathematics major
from Breckenridge, was elected
chairman, and Jerry K. Johnson,
junior agriculture major from
Nacogdoches, was elected secre
tary.
Baylor Wire Tells
A&M ‘Good Luck’
The A&M student body re
ceived a telegram yesterday
from the Baylor student body
saying “Good luck against
Kentucky. Let’s put the South
west conference on top.”
A&M’s student senate sent a
“Thanks, we’ll do our best.
Good luck against California.”
Baylor plays the University
of California there Saturday.
dents can earn about $20 for four
hours work selling programs,
Hardesty said.
* * *
THERE ARE no plans for feed
ing non-militai-y students in the
east wing of Duncan mess hall.
Nothing definite has been decided,
said J. G. Peniston, supervisor of
subsistence.
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THE AIR FORCE has placed 15
-college graduates, all recently
commissioned officers, in a basic
meterology training program here
for 12 months. Besides meterology
work, studies include advanced
courses on the oceanography de
partment and related fields. Grad
uates will be qualified as weather
officers in the air force.
* * *
THE AGGIELAND Inn will take
over-flow crowds from the M>
morial Student Center again- .
year. Part of the building’s / t*n s
floor is being remodeled ^second
division officers, buty^ or Basic
still be 24 rooms left there will
Of these 24, six ar r ^. or B°tel.
and the rest are e twin bed rooms
Cots are also : double bed rooms.
. available.
Course Drops
Won’t Hurt
(Graduation
No student will be stopped
from graduating on time by
the new state law which re
quires executive approval for
continuing courses with less than
12 students.
J. P. Abbott, dean of the col-
lebe said some of these courses
would be dropped. If a student
needs a dropped course to grad
uate, the college will allow him to
substitute another course or take
it during the spring semester, he
said. \
The Executive committee of the
academic council met yesterday
and Tuesday to discuss the new
rule.
The committee ordered a few
courses dropped. Which courses
and how many is not yet definite.
Some of the courses ordered
dropped have already been drop
ped by the departments, in antici
pation of the order, Dean Abbott
said.
“This is not very different from
the routine procedure,” he said.
“We always have to consider the
small section.”
The new law says that the presi
dent must report to the board of
directors every class that falls be
low 12 students.
If the board of directors con
siders the class necessary and
worth keeping, it will be continued.
A&M’s policy is for the Executive
committee to decide what classes
to drop. The committee then re
ports its findings to the board of
directors.
All classes below 12 students are
then repo^H * to the
the Texas Central Edu-
cation agency.
News Flashes
Mon-
J. P.
Fellow,.
By Given
p r orest Service
t a r. rank Cech, graduate of
yda State university, and
fan Buijtenen, of the Agricultural
college of Wageningen university,
Holland, havebeen named by the
Texas Forest service to receive
fellowships ( on work leading to the
PhD degree.
They will use the laboratory and
greenhouse facilities assigned to
the Forest service and will work on
specific problems supporting the
research program.
Bowlin
Elects
A Bryan -j
sidiary of th College Station sub
congress waAe American Bowling
with an ele/.s organized last night
About flection of officers,
in bowlii^OO local men interested
Student J-g met in the Memorial
M. H t / Center *
depart^ Butler of the economics
Oth- nen t was elected president,
bert ier officers are S/Sgt. Her-
base' Cowham, Bryan Air Force
Dud:, vice-president; Sgt. J. A.
andley, A&M, secretary-treasurer;
a£d Doug Krueger, A&M student,
ejad Capt. Jim Cole, BAFB, exe-
utive directors.
/ Chosen for the constitution com-
Imittee were Jim Kennedy, student,
chairman; Bemie Hoefelmyer, stu
dent; Jim McDonald, Bryan; Col.
Bob Strate, BAFB; and Cowham.
Members of the rules commit
tee are Cole, chairman; Bill Utz-
man, student; 1st Lt. Edgar Car-
roll, BAFB; Ben Blankenship, stu
dent; and Clem England, student.
This is the first time an
organization like this has been
started in this area, said John
Geiger, MSC bowling director. It
is open to any male resident or
student.
-g Group Organizes,
Officers Here
The group will bowl under ABC
regulations and participate in ABC
tournaments throughout the year.
The group’s All - Star Bowling
league will start tonight at 8 p. m.
in the MSC.
Five Aggies to Go
To TSCW Tonight
Five Aggies will attend the an
nual Texas State College for wo
men all - college night tonight in
Denton.
Pat Wood, senior class president;
Fred Mitchell, corps commander;
Gil Stribling, senior class social
secretary; Jimmy Tyree senior yell
leader; and Ide Trotter, student
senate president were invited to
the program.
A program highlighting events
of the coming year, the annual oc
casion is a get-acquainted party
for all students, especially fresh
men. It is conducted by the various
classes, clubs and alumnae.
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, busi
ness manager for student activi
ties, will go with the group from
A&M. They will return Friday.
Jveverniers Cause
Liquor Inflation
By the Associated Press \
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.—Revenuers are making a good run j
on stills in the Lueh moonshine liquor district of Logan, Lin- j
coin and Mango Counties. But their activities are forcing
higher prices. William R. Harvey, chief investigator here
for the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit, says the going price for
moonshine has climbed to $16 a gallon—roughly the price of
some legal brands. He thinks it’s because his agents have
been knocking off so many stills lately. They destroyed five
in the last 30 days.
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DENVER—Sept. 16—The Summer White House tonight declined
comment on a published report that President Eisenhower has “about
decided” to promote Robert H. Jackson, associate Supreme Court jus
tice, to be chief justice succeeding the late Fred M. Vinson.
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Russell (D-Ga) said today the
United States has more atom bombs than it has planes and |
pilots to deliver them against any aggressor that might attack » |
this country.
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FREDERICK, Md.—Kenneth M. Outhouse thinks the name of
Dean would be “more appropriate, genteel and elegant.”
So he petitioned Frederick Circuit Court yesterday to change his
name to Kenneth Morton Dean. Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer
approved the change effective Oct. 6 provided no sufficient objection is
entered.
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DECATUR, Ill.—A 15-year-old girl who spurned her boy
friend’s pleas to quit school and marry him was shot and I
killed last night as she slept in bed with her mother. The !
rejected suitor then fatally shot himself. 1
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SANDUSKY, Ohio—Anyone who gets a ticket for parking Friday
or Saturday can get out of paying the $1 fine—but it will still cost
them. City officials have agreed a parking ticket will be quashed
if the holder gives a pint of blood when the Red Cross bloodmobile
visits next Monday.
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NEW YORK—The New York Daily Mirror said yesterday
the engagement of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to j
Miss Jean Kerr, his former research assistant, will be an- j
nounced this weekend.
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TUCSON, Ariz.—“A bunch of rattlesnakes are messing around
the yard by my back door,” a woman telephoned the sheriff’s office.
“I used up all my ammunition killing them, and I wonder if you
would help me scare off the rest.” Deputies Gail Back and Ken Clayton
drove to the home of Mrs. Ruth ! Curtis in Bear Canyon. They found
half a dozen live rattlers in the yard.
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NEW ORLEANS—Surgeons will operate on Louisiana’s t
Siamese twins today in a dangerous effort to separate the ,
girls and give them a chance for normal life. Spokesmen for ;
the New Orleans Foundation hospital say both twins have ji
never survived such an operation.
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KANSAS CITY—Kansas City’s seventh mysterious bomb in the
last three weeks exploded in a suite of physicians’ offices on the 11th
floor of the downtown Bryant building yesterday. Two women on the
street below were cut by falling window glass. The six previous
blasts damaged business firms. . T ..