Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1953)
Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By ] A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 116: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1953 Price Five Cents Class Distinction BlamedforKeeping ^Fish * Out of MSC John Samuels, pi’esident of the Memorial Student Center, told The Battalion last night that many freshmen never will use the MSC until it abolishes class distinction on its property. The purpose of the MSC is to give all students a place for spend ing their leisure time, Samuels ex plained. He said freshmen cannot feel at east there if they fear haz ing or have to obey class distinc tion rules. The MSC Directorate follows its own policy against class distinction among its members, Samuels said. Twenty Seats Available On Lubbock Train There are 20 seats available on a special chartered train to Lubbock for the Texas Tech game Oct. 10. The train was charterd for the band, on a basis of 200 pas sengers. Since the band is taking 180, members 20 more people are needed. Tickets are $10.75 for the round trip. They will be sold by the stu dent activities office on a first come, first served basis. If the demand is high enough, more cars will be added to the train. If more cars are added, the price per ticket will be higher, be cause the first 200 tickets are tax free. After that they are subject to the 15 per cent federal tax. The desiel - powered Santa Fe train leaves Caldwell the morning of the game and gets to Lubbock at 3:30 p. m., in- the time for the night game. It leaves Lubbock 8 a. m. Sunday and gets to Caldwell at 5 p. m. Sunday. While in Lubbock, the band will be guests of the West Texas A&M club, who will serve them barbeque Saturday afternoon and house them that night. But, he added that other students sometimes haze freshmen on stu dent center property. Samuels said several cases of freshmen being hazed in the MSC are reported each year. He said the MSC should enforce a policy against class distinction and hazing within its boundaries. The MSC has no policy either for ar against class distinction. Such a policy must be passed by the MSC council which governs the stu dent center. Tuesday night, the council voted against forming a committee to study class distinction against freshmen in the MSC. Samuels asked for the committee. Committee Recommendation He wanted it to recommend a policy either for or against fresh men class distinction rules. The committee’s proposal would have had to receive council approv al. The council voted against form ing the committee. $10 MILLION TUNNEL—pictured above is the entrance to to the recently opened Baytown—La Porte tunnel which will replace the old slow-moving ferry. The ferry, while running 16 hours a day, could take only 18 cars per trip. City Council Meeting Set for Monday Night College Station city council will meet at 7:30 Monday night. This change from the regularly scheduled day was made because Ran Boswell, city manager, is at tending a convention in California. Reds Yield GIs Who Refused to Return By SAM SUMMERLIN PANMUNJOM, Korea, Thurs day, Sept. 24—(A 5 )—The Reds to day yielded control of 23 American prisoners of war they said had refused repatriation. The Ameri cans sang the Communist Interna-^ tionale as they were handed over to Indian custodial troops in the Korean neutral zone. The Reds also gave up one Brit on and 335 Korean prisoners of war they said did not insist on repatriation in last month’s big prisoner of wai’ exchange. Koreans Returned First The Koreans were handed over first. The Americans and the Brit on came last. There were five women among the Koreans. The transfer was completed shortly after 1 p.m., 10 p.m., Wednesday CST. The Americans were singing the Communist anthem as they roiled into the demilitarized zone in Kbs- sian-built tnicks. They laughed and smiled as they climbed out of the lumbering ve hicles. All appeared healthy and were sun-tanned. Some shook hands with North Korean Communists who helped them down from the trucks, and thanked them. (See CHINESE, Page 2) Dance Set In MSC For Weekend An informal dance will be held from 2 until 5 p. m. Saturday in the assembly room of the Memorial Student Center. Sponsored by the MSC music and dance committees, the dance is for Aggies who have dates for the Houston game this weekend. Admission is fifty cents a couple. Civilian,CorpsStudents To Live in Dormitory 5 New Policy I begins Willi Moving Today Senate Holds First Regular Meet at 7:15 The student senate will hold its first regularly scheduled meeting of the year at 7:15 tonight in the Senate cham ber of the Memorial Student Center. Campus parking and re cognition of distinguished stu dent cards by the academic de partments of the college are scheduled for discussion. MSC Opens Exhibit Of Uniform Prints An exhibit of military uniform prints is now on display in the promenade of the Memorial Stu dent Center. The collection consists of 48 hand-colored plates depict ing the evolution of military uni forms from 1776 to the present. In 1950, a retired army colonel who wished to remain anonymous contributed the $17.50 subscrip tion for the first year. The plates come out in four issues of four plates each, per year. Published by the military col lector and historian, each issue also carries with it a pamphlet, the Journal of the Military Col lector and Historian. Joni James Ticket Sales Break Previous Record The largest pre-performance ticket sale in A&M’s history has been recorded for the Joni James and Buddy Morrow orchestra con cert scheduled at 8 p.m. Monday in Guion hall. Over 600 tickets have been sold for the attraction. “We are sure of a sell out,” said C. G. (Spike) White, rhanager of student activi ties. The concert is one of four pro- Four Student Magazines Magazine Editors Will For Prompt Publishing Try Date The editors of A&M’s four stu dent magazines are ti*ying to sur prise their subscribers this year by publishing the magazines on time. The Agriculturist, The Commen tator and The Engineer have set publication dates for the end of October. Everett Besch, editor of the Southwestern Veterinarian, was unavailable for comment. The Engineer is headed by Jack Garrett, senior mechanical engi neering major from Del Rio. “Our main purpose is to give students new information about engineer ing,” Garrett said. Weather Today CLEAR Clear and warmer today. Slightly heavier winds expected late today. Low this morning 56. High today 88-90. Expected low tonight 60-64. “We hope to carry complete cov erage of the engineering field, and to have feature articles on out standing engineering personali ties,” he said. Needs Help The main thing The Engineer needs is more help, Garrett com mented. “Anyone, regardless of his field of study, is invited to join our staff. Working on The Engineer is good training for any one intending to enter the engi neering field.” Roland Bahlman is The Engi neer’s associate editor; Rodney Heath, business manager, and James Henderson, feature editor. “The Agriculturist will give stu dents information they can get no where else,” said Ed Stem, editor, in explaining the aim of his mag azine. “The old Agiiculturist policy of New York Coeds Quit Porter Jobs NEW Y r ORK—CP)—A seiwice em ployes strike at Sarah Lawrence college in Bronxville is over, and the girl students can give up their janitor and porter tasks. The three-day walkout of about 13 maintenance personnel was set tled yesterday, but details of the agreement wei-e not disclosed. The strikers, members of the AFL International Building Serv ice Employes union, had demanded a union stop, one which all new employes must join. re-hashing news from other agri cultural publications has been stopped,” he said. “We are going to have stories about things which are revolutionizing agriculture, and we’re going to have them first!” Stem also is planning articles on the success of A&M agricultural graduates, their pay and other in formation, so students may deter mine which field to emphasize. The Agiiculturist will carry ar ticles about activities of agricul ture clubs and organizations. Stern has appointed Roy Sullivan associate editor; Don Kemp assist ant editor; Bob Mayo, advertising manager and Iverson Branan, art editor. Literary Magazine The Commentator will make its debut as a literary magazine this year, said Bob Hendry, editor. He said humor articles will not be cut out, but their number will be re duced. Feature articles appearing in the first issue deal with the dispute among The Battalion newspaper, administration and corps; the in famous “TT” organization uncover ed at A&M in 1952; Teddy Roose velt’s criticisms of a military col lege and others. Fiction articles will be printed also. Besides stories of a light nature, the humor section will con tain comic advertisements, and take-offs by student cartoonists on leading comic strips. John Samuels has been appoint ed associates editor of The Com mentator. Dan Dawson is manag ing editor; Jerry Estes, sports edi tor and Connie Eckard, art editor. grams booked which are not a part of the Town Hall series. The others are Tex Beneke (former Glenn Miller orchestra), Ray An thony and Sammy Kaye. Students will not be admitted to these performances on thdir Town Hall ticket which is included with their student activities fee, but must purchase tickets in the stu dent activities office. Student tickets cost one dollar, and non-student tickets $1.50. The Town Hall programs, for which students may use the ticket included in their student activities fee, are as follows: American Album of Familiar Music, Nov. 17; Charles Laughton, Dec. 7; San Antonio Symphony, Jan. 7; Westminster Choir, Feb. 4; and the Gershwin Festival, Feb. 25. The Peggy Lee and Jan Garber program previously scheduled as the Town Hall popular number was not booked because of a delay in the constniction of the new physi cal education building. The program was scheduled to be held in that building, and the de lay would have^ made it necessary to switch the concert to Guion hall. The loss of the extra seats avail able in the new building would have made some people miss the performance, so the conrtact was not signed. The program replacing Miss Lee and Garber will be announced later. Joni James, often called the “Miss America of Music,” will sing many of her hit songs at Monday night’s concert. These include “Why Don’t You Believe Me,” “Have You Heard,” “You Belong to Me,” “Let There Be Love,” “Al most Always,” and “Purple Shades.” Critics have called Morrow’s or chestra one of the nation’s top dance bands. His RCA recordings have scored as hits throughout the nation. Morrow’s blonde vocalist Jean Terry and singing comic Frankie Lester will be included in the concert. Tex Beneke will give a concert after the Baylor-A&M football game at approximately 7:15 p.m. Oct. 24 in Guion Hall. He will play also at the all colleke dance around 9 p.m. in Sbisa hall. Beneke took over Glenn Miller’s orchestra after the latter’s death, and has been acclaimed by critics and music lovers alike. , He is ac companied by vocalist Shirley Jones and Jack Carroll. (See CONCERST, Page 2) , Cadet and non-military students will be housed together in dormitory 5. This major change in college housing policy will start Fri day. The college formerly has housed cadets and non-military students in different dormitories located on separate campus areas. Non-military students will live on the first two floors of dormitory 5. A and B company armor, now living there will be moved to the third and fourth floors. The first regimental staff, located on the second floor, will be housed in dormitory 9. Seniors without cadet rank now live on the top floor of ♦■dormitory 5. Col Taylor Wil kins, assistant commandant, said these men either will be moved into regular units or to the first floor of dormitory 7. The Housing office said that only non-military students living three to a room can transfer into dormitory 5. These students will come from crowded rooms in dormitories 2 and 4 and Leggett and Mitchell halls. Room change will be made Fri day in room 100 of Goodwin Hall. Housing Office Non-military students can not immediately transfer to a corner room, according to the Housing of fice. The non-military housemaster in dormitory 5 will assign corner rooms later. The first two floors of dormitory 5 have been opened for non-mili tary students to end crowded hous ing in their regular dormitories. An increase this fall of these students has caused about 85 to live three to a room, according to a housing official. Other non-military dormitories are Bizzell, Mitchell and Leggett, halls and dormitories 2 and 4. Law and Puryear, which once housed non-military students, were opened this fall to freshmen. The collection is owned by the Cushing Memorial library, which now pays . the subscription fee. Since 1951, the original donor has not been able to afford the sub scription fee. The library has paid the fee because Robert A. Houze, librarian, feels the collection adds much to the A&M library. There is a very limited number of editions of the collection in existence. The set owned by the college is number 126. Though the plates may not be very valuable now, Houze said they would pro bably gain value over the years. Furnishes History Furnishing important basic his torical research, the Journal is a very necessary part of the col lection, Houze said. The first two issues of plates were exhibited in the MSC in January, 1951. It was one of the first art collections placed on ex hibit in the center after it opened in September, 1950. Other institutions owning sets of the prints are: West Point, An napolis, Virginia Military Insti tute, The Citadel, Harvard, Prince ton, Dai-tmouth, University of Tex as and Texas Western college. Seven Local Men Attend Meeting Seven College Station and Bryan men will attend Monday the American General Life Insurance company meeting in San Antonio. Members of the central Texas agency will meet to plan for an All-American month campaign. Those attending are Lucian Morgan, Ross Jennings, Harry Hooker, John B. Longley, James W. Daniels, Charles D. Hart and Sidney Loveless, district manager. Others attending from this area are Albert E. Voelkel, Brenham; Joe C. Middleton, Calvert; Miss Ruth Ravell, Broesbeck; Cedric Copeland, John E. Gossett and John Whitby, Waco. Jennings is attending a meet- ing in Houston for new men in the company. Parking Errors Cause Problem Says Hickman “There are more cars on the campus than ever before/' said Fred Hickman, chief of campus security, “but the real problem is the way the students park their cars. Hickman said that there pro bably was not enough parking space for all the cars, but that there would be more space if stu dents would park correctly. Some students have not been parking between white lines and otherwise disobeying the parking rules. “We can’t do anything about the lack of space until students fill the available space and we can see how much more we’ll need,” Hick man said. The parking problem is most serious in the new area, he said. New parking areas have been add ed there on the street behind the mess hall and on the drill field. ’MURAL HANDOUTS—Mrs. Bebe Wiler looks on as Allan (Bootsie) Hohlt signs for an intramural football. B. C. (Dutch) Dutcher holds the ball. Mrs. Wiler is a recent addition to the Student Activities Office staff. Hearne Honors Sen. Johnson HEARNE, Sept. 23—(TP)— Lyndon Johnson, Texas’ sen ior senator and Democratic minority leader in the Senate now on a four-day, 20-town jaunt through North and Central Texas, was honored with a barbe cue here today. Mayors of all towns in the coun ty had proclaimed today as Robert son County Lyndon Johnson Day and all stores were closed during the noon hours for the barbecue. Johnson, already promised Re publican competition for his seat in next year’s election, came here from Mexia, where he made a breakfast speech. Last night he addi'essed a barbecue at Blooming Grove sponsored by the Navarro County Baptist brotherhood and conferred with political leaders in Corsicana. Yesterday noon he addressed a joint meeting of three Hillsboro civic clubs.