Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 34, 1953
'Class Distinction In 3ISC
'Left in Hands of Council
MSC president John Samuels has run into
trouble trying to abolish freshmen class dis
tinction rules in the student center.
Academic Stairs
Endanger Students
The stairways at the north and south ends
of the Academic building are a hazard to
student safety.
Two people standing abreast can barely
squeeze into the stairways’ width.
Yet during a change of classes, they are
packed with students going up and down the
steps. These passageways do not have room
for all the students who try to use them at
one time.
This crowding and confusion could cause
someone to be pushed off balance. Anyone
falling on the stairways during these periods
could be seriously injured.
Also the crowding causes long lines to
form in the halls as students wait to use the
steps.
One-way signs on these stairways might
help matters.
The roadblock is Samuel’s own council.
He can not act without its approval. Tuesday
night Samuels asked the council to approve a
committee to study class distinction against
freshman in the MSC.
The committee would have made a rec
ommendation either for or against class dis
tinction. The council then would have voted
on it.
But the council voted against even setting
up the committee. Although several coun
cil members favor abolishing class distinc
tion in the MSC, they still voted against the
committee.
Their action is understandable. They
seemed to fear some cadet corps members
might become angered if steps were taken to
abolish class distinction in the MSC . They
indicated strong opposition in a senior meet
ing might hurt the student center.
These council members may be right.
But if the MSC is to fully achieve its pur
pose as a place for student relaxation and
promotion of culture, class distinction on its
property must be abolished.
The council is the only group that can
make this a reality.
GOOD IDEA —BUT IT WORKS BOTH WAYS
Capers Combo Set for Rue Pinalle
★ Job Interviews ★
• John W. Clark of Franklinville,
North Carolina, is looking for a
man to act as herdsman on his cat
tle ranch near Scotland Neck,
North Carolina. Animal husbandry
majors may qualify for this posi
tion.
® The Hazeltine Electronics corpo
ration of New York, engaged in the
design, development and produc
tion of electronic equipment, is in
terested in contacting men trained
in the fields of physics, electrical
and mechanical engineering who
are free of military commitments
for job opportunities in design and
development engineering, project
administration, field engineering,
test engineering, technical writing
and mechanical engineering. New
engineers are usually assigned to
a small group and learn by work
ing with experienced engineers on
actual projects. *
® Warren Petroleum company of
Fort Worth needs an engineer,
preferably mechanical or chemical,
for sales engineering work. Work
v/ould include a six-month train
ing period and then individual
would be given a territory pro
bably in East or Central Texas.
The company furnishes a car and
will pay traveling expenses.
The Capers Combo will play Fri
day night at the first Rue Pinalle
show of the year.
The combo is composed of Ernie
Martelino, Ernie Horres, Bill Ard
and Doug Krueger. Pete Mayeaux
is vocalist for the group.
The floor show features singers
Sylvia Teague and Jimmy Harris
on. Dorothy Kay Ish and Pat
Lackey will stage dance routines.
Fred Ablon will solo on the uke-
lele.
The combo also will play for
dancing.
Rue Pinalle opens at 8:30 p.m.
The floor show starts at 10:15.
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News Flashes
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WASHINGTON—The Washington Post said today that
army is honorably discharging some 40 former American
prisoners of war who allegedly collaborated with their Com
munist captors in Korea. However, the Post added, army
legal officers are reviewing evidence against them and if
any of this evidence “warrants trial of any of them for
treason or other crimes, they will have to face justice.”
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NEW YORK—Sen. McCarthy R-Wis threatened today to
have author Corliss Lament cited on at least two dozen
contempt counts for his refusal to answer Senate subcommittee
“ questions.
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SAN MARCOS—Capt. Orville W. Peterson, 32, Wausa,
Wis., was killed today in the crash of his light training plane
near here. A student pilot, 1st Lt. Alan F. Sweeney, 28,
Philadelphia, parachuted.
★ ★ ★
DETROIT—CIO President Walter P. Reuther said today
his auto workers union doesn’t “intend to sign any new
■ contracts” that don’t provide for a guaranteed annual wage.
★ ★ ★
LONDON—Desert fighting broke out at an isolated
Persian Gulf oasis between turbaned warriors loyal to Brit
ain and to Saudi Arabia, spokesmen for the two countries
disclosed tonight. Each side blamed the other for the shoot
ing in which “several deaths” were reported in the disputed
oil-rich frontier region last week.
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MEXICO CITY—A Mexican labor leader today produced
what he said was proof of U. S. Embassy plans for an
invasion of Mexico in 1924 to protect U. S. oil companies.
★ ★ ★
KINGSTON, Jamaica—This British island colony bat
tened down tonight in fear of a hurricane reported brewing
off Jamaica. The local weather office reported the center
of the storm was located 140 miles southeast at nightfall.
★ ★ ★
ISTANBUL—Ten persons were killed and 27 wounded in
an explosion and fire at the municipal fuel dump at Kars,
newspapers reported today. Kars is 25 miles from the
Soviet border.
★ ★ ★
TYLER—A fire which swept the Texas College cafeteria
last midnight resulted in an estimated $100,000 loss to the
facilities of the Negro institution.
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TEXARKANA, Ark. — Evangelist Billy James Hargis
announced that the International Council of Christian Churches
plans to float 20,000 Bibles by balloon over the Iron Curtain
next year.
★ ★ ★
TONAWANDA, N. Y.—The district attorney ordered an
investigation opened today into a series of explosions that
killed at least 10 workmen, injured 27 persons and blew a
peroxide plant into rubble.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
More About Boots
Co - Editors The Battalion;
Couldn’t it be said that possibly
the editors of “our” school paper
are two of the most selfish and
disgraceful individuals to ever mar
any college campus ?
Can any senior Aggie possibly
feel that after 3 years on this
campus “the boots themselves are
unimportant,” and that “they can
be purchased by anyone with
enough cash?” No; Not if that
Chemical Blast
Kills 10, Injures 27
TONAWANDA, N.Y., Sept. 23—
OP)—Ten men \yere killed and 27
persons were injured today as a
series of four explosions ripped to
bits a chemical plant building and
rocked the northern suburbs of
Buffalo.
Authorities feared the toll ' of
dead might go as high as 12. The
blast destroyed the brick one-story
building owned by the lucidol div
ision of the Novadelagene Corp.
Wreckage was strewn for several
hundred yards. Parts of bodies
were thrown as far as 50 feet.
Dozens of homes were damaged
by the blast and flying debris. The
blast could be heard for four miles.
The company said the causes had
not been determined. The Erie
County district attorney started an
investigation.
A fire chief said damage would
run into the millions.
All of the dead apparently were
in the building at the time of the
explosion. Only six had been iden
tified positively.
Many of the injured were resi
dents of a housing project across
the street.
Concerts
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan
ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during
the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination
and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of
publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year,
and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods
and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per
month. Advertising rates furnished on request.
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College Station, Texas
under the Act of Con
gress of March 3, 1370.
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York City, Chicago, Los
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cisco.
JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER._ Co-Editors
Chuck Neighbors Managing Editor
Harri Baker Campus Editor
Bob Boriskie Sports Editor
Jon Kinslow City Editor
Jerry Estes - Basic Division Editor
Bob Hendry - Feature Editor
Barbara Rubin Society Editor
Bill Turner Advertising Manager
(Continued from Page 1)
Ray Anthony returns to A&M
Nov. 7. Anthony recently released
his newest hit, “Dragnet.” He will
give a concert at 7:15 p.m. in Guion
hall, and play at the all college
dance in Sbisa hall at 9 p.m.
Aggies may “swing and sway
with Sammy Kaye” Nov. 25. He
will do his famous audience parti
cipation stunt where two men and
two women are selected at random
from the audience to lead the band.
Kaye will be accompanied by his
radio and television personalities,
Peggy Powers, Jeffrey Clay, The
Kaydets and The Kaye Choir.
Kaye’s concert will start at 6:45
p.m. so the audience may attend
the Aggie Bonfire at 8 p.m. He
also will play from 10 p.m. to 1
a.m. at the dance in Sbisa hall af
ter the bonfire.
“Other popular numbers are
scheduled also,” said John Akard,
student entertainment manager.
“These programs can not be book
ed more than three months in ad
vance, however, so they must be
announced later.”
Chinese
man can also say that he is an
Aggie.
Perhaps the boots don’t make a
man superior, but they are a sign
that a man has spent 3 years at
A&M not just one or two semesters
in order to evaim our school as his
own.
The Class r.f ; 54 has taken steps
to make ihe boots more than pieces
of leather for anyone with the
money, unless that man has earned
them, and that same group should
take the boots from any bigoted,
anti-aggie, mouth-piece of the ten-
percenters who would insult their
school and class as you have done.
Jack Dunlap ’54
To the Battalion:
I was interested in your editorial
in the September 17th issue of The
Battalion concerning the trees on
Lee and Dexter Streets. These
trees could be no possible hazard
unless some driver at the wheel of
an automobile felt the need of
“speeding”.
Why in a quiet residential dist
rict—should anyone be in such a
hurry, that a tree would be in his
way ? Perhaps the reason a lot of
home owners such as I bought our
property in this section was be
cause of its natural beauty.
It would be a great blow if these
trees were cut down. The trees
have reflectors on them which
show both day and night. If the
trees are taken out, perhaps than
the motorist will drive fast enough
to endanger the lives of the chil
dren in that section—and many of
them use both Dexter and Lee to
go to Consolidated school.
I really think the trees are a
safety element rather than a
hazard.
Please let’s leave them alone.
Mrs. F. W. Hensel Sr.
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12-Oz. Cans—Del Monte
Pineapple Juice . 2 cans 19c
46-Oz. Cans—Libby’s
Tomato Juice
. can 29c
2 No. 2 Cans—Diamond Brand
Turnip Greens ..... 21c
Crisco 3 lb. can 89c
2 No. 2 Cans—Van Camp’s
Pork & Beans .
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S'/z-Oz. Cans—Armour’s
Potted Meat . . 2 cans 29c
Tea Garden
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Star Kist Green Label
Chunk Style Tuna . can 35c
Duncan’s Admiration
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