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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents JTI # # # # Hattahon Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 122: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1953 Price Five Cents Three Still Hospitalized Cadet Released From Hospital After Smash up Robert J. Samples, 18, a fresh man engineering major from Muenster, was released yesterday morning from Hillcrest hospital, Waco. Samples is the first to he re leased of the four cadets injured Saturday afternoon in a two car collision 11 miles north of Waco on US highway 77 and 81. Charles R. Arnold, 20, of Sher man is hospitalized with a broken pelvis, severe groin cuts and a cut artery. Arnold was sitting in the right side of the front seat and went through the windshield when the car rolled over, Samples said. Herman (Gene) Tantzen, 20, senior from Beaumont, is in Hill- crest with back injuries. Tantzen is in a cast, according to Samples. Tantzen is in good condition and is improving. Jimmie Hodges, 19, of Irving, has a fractured collar bone and is in good condition. He is also im proved. The other passengers in the car, Terry Donahue and John L. Fulg- ham, were treated Saturday and released. Hodges’ car was traveling north on the four-lane highway toward Dallas. The cadets had just passed a slow-moving car and were mov ing about 60 because the road was wet. One of the Aggies said to Hodges (the driver) “You’d better move over, there’s a fellow wants to pass you.” Hodges moved over into the right (or ‘slow’ lane) and was continuing Tech Tickets Go Off Sale Tomorrow Student ticket and date ticket for the Texas Tech game are on sale at the athletic of fice uptil 5 p. m. Wednesday. Tickets are $1.20 for stu dents and $3.60 for the dates. By Monday 2,200 $3.60 tickets had been sold. The athletic office estimated that 3,000 tickets will be sold. at about the same speed when a car driven by a man passed them at a high rate of speed. The other car drew abreast of Hodges’ left front fender, when the map driving the other car look ed ov^t / is shoulder at the Aggies and nis steering wheel sharply to the ight. “He was right in front of us and Hodges didn’t even have time to take his foot off the gas, let alone put on the brake. We went into a skid to the right. I guess we were moving down the shoulder sideways,” Samples said. “Then we started to roll. Some persons said it was five times that we idled over. Some said it was seven. I don’t know. Things were all jumbled up inside the car.” Hodges was thrown out the door on the driver’s side, Arnold went through the windshield on the right side. When the cadet’s car finally stopped rolling, Donahue and Fulg- ham helped the others out of the car. Neither one of them was hurt bad. About 30 minutes after the wreck occurred, ambulances from Waco arrived at the scene of the acident and took the six cadets to Hillcrest hospital. John F. Sowell, about 40, a pa tient at the Waco Veterans Admin istration hospital, was driver of the car which collided with the Aggies. Sowell continued after the acci dent down the highway for some distance before his car overturned. He was taken to Providence hospit al in Waco and then to the VA hos pital. No charges were filed by author ities against either party involved in the accident. * * He Another student, Joe Neil Gar rett was injured Monday morning when his car overturned near the Old San Antonio road on highway 6 between Hearne and Bryan. He was taken to Bryan Hospi tal by V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader. He was released yesterday. Montgomery said Garrett fell asleep at the wheel of his car. Garrett was returning from Dallas. New Area Short 177 Parking Sp aces There are now 177 more cars in Jhe new area than permanent park ing places, the Campus Security sffice reports. In the Hart hall area, there are twice as many cars as parking places. Some measures have been taken to ease the parking problem, but Fred Hickman, chief of Campus Security, says a new parking lot must be built close to the new area in the near future. In the new area, 64 cars are al lowed to park on Throckmorton St. and 12 can park on the street in front of the Music hall. Lamar St., north of the new area, has been opened to student parking also. The over-flow space for all park ing areas is the north-west corner of the drill field behind Duncan hall. Students in Hart have been al lowed to park on the streets sur rounding the dormitory. There is no parking problem in the freshman area. Campus Se curity said. The Law hall lot was enlarged last spring to make room for more cars there. The lot behind dormitory 5 was also enlarged, but there is still not enough room for that area. The problem would be eased if stu dents would park their cars per pendicular to the sides of the lot, Fish Drill Team Tryouts Begin Soon Freshmen interested in joining the fish drill team should meet be hind dorm 16 at 5 p.m. Wednes day. High school ROTC or previous military training is not necessary, said Capt. Joseph C. Brusse, spon sor. The team will be picked from the best boys, he said. Final date for choosing team members has not been set* instead of at an angle, Campus Security said. Campus policemen are now ticketing cars parking in the center of the dormitory 5 lot. Campus security said the only places suitable for a new parking lot in the new area are now being used for the band drill field, base ball diamonds and football fields. McBrierty Named Aggie Sweetheart JANE MCBRIERTY Aggie Sweethear for 1953-54 Courthouse in Bryan May Be Replaced Deferment Test To Be Given November 19 Selective service college qualification tests will be given Nov. 19 on the A&M campus. Bulletins of information about the tests may be obtained at the Housing and Registrar’s of fices. Applications must be made not later than midnight, Nov. 2. To be eligible for the selective service test, the student must in tend to request deferment as a stu dent, be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction and not previously have taken the test. Local draft boards do not have to defer students even though they make scores equal or better than the criteria outlined in selective jervice regulations, f 1 Col. Morris S. Schwartz, deputy state draft director, urges stu dents whose academic year ends in January to take the November test so they will have a test score on file at their draft boards before the end of their academic year. “At that time, draft boards re open and reconsider student’s cases to determine whether they should be deferred,” Schwartz said. Recommendations on the pos sibilities of building a new Brazos county courthouse were discussed recently by the county commission ers court. The group met in conference with the Citizens Advisory com mittee, which was formed to study the courthouse needs. “We will give the recommenda tions of the committee close and careful study before we decide any thing,” said Judge A. S. Ware, pre siding officer of the court. “We appreciate the time the citizens have put in on their extensive study.” In addition to a new courthouse, the proposed project would provide for a new jail. Also being considered by the court is whether* or not to build on the present site. Nothing de finite on this has been decided by the court. “We are going to have to have a new court house in the near fu ture,” Ware said. “We are planning now so we will be ready when the need arises.” Building Dedication Set for October 23 The new Agricultural Informa tion building here will be dedicated by Chancellor M. T. Harrington at 4 p. m., Friday, Oct. 23. “The present building is small and grossly inadequate. It has be gun to crack in several places. All of the building is being used, but many of the offices are over crowded.” Anyone interested in join ing The Battalion staff is urged to see Jerry Bennett and Ed Holder, co-editors, in the paper’s office on the sec ond floor of Goodwin hall. Positions are open in every department of the paper, and photographers also should see the editors. A&M’s Opportunity Awards Help Deserving Students WHAT’S THIS—Kate, the worried pointer in the doghouse, takes a dim view of her master’s new pet skunk. Taboo, the skunk, has been descented, but no one has told Kate about it. The animals belong to Travis Hedge of Dallas. By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor A&M is helping 251 students who could not otherwise attend college obtain an education with the only scholai'ship of its kind in the nation—the Opportunity Award. Ninety-four students won the scholarship this spring in state wide competition to bring the total to 251, the largest number in A&M’s history. Over 400 high school students entered the award competition. The Opportunity Award scholar ships originated in 1946 when the Former Students association donat ed money for them. The associa tion has agreed to maintain the scholarship fund by adding 10 new awards each year. The fund also has grown through donations from business establish ments and interested persons. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones of Hous ton have given at least seven schol arships every year during the fund’s existance. Donors Requests Although an Oppm-tunity Award may be given to any student the college chooses, some donors ask that theirs be given to certain persons or students majoring in specific fields. “One man asked that his be given to the biggest country boy we could find,” said E. E. Mc- Quillen, director. “Another asked that his award be given to a civil engineering major.” “The only trouble with this is some students change majors after the award has been granted. Of course the donors do not actually care who receives the award and the winner always keeps it, but we like to give it to the type of student they specify if it is at all possible.” Winner’s names and scholastic records are sent to their specific donors so they may follow his pro gress during college. The majority of the donors do not specify a cer tain person or type of student, however. Any Texas high school student who needs assistance to attend col lege is eligible for an Opportunity Award scholarship. Out-of-state students are not eligible unless some one donates a fund to him specifically. Applications for the awards are mailed each year by the College to the various high school princ ipals throughout Texas, or to the student himself if he requests it. He then fills in the application and mails it to the secretary of the Scholarship committee, where it is given an initial screening. Aptitude Tests If it is accepted, the student comes to A&M on two Saturdays during the spring semester to take aptitude tests in state-wide com petition with other Opportunity Award candidates. Winners are chosen by the Faculty Committee on Scholar ships which judges the student on his high school scholastic record, extra-curricula activities during high school and score on the apti tude test. E. E. McQUILLEN Development Fund Director Winners of the award receive up to $300 each year for four years, roughly one-third of his school ex penses. He must secure the balance through student labor which the college will help him obtain, and summer work. Not ‘Free* “An opportunity Award is not designed to offer a boy free edu cation,” McQuillen said “but to A&M Delegation Picks TSCW Senior Saturday A special delegation of A&M students has picked Miss Jane McBrierty, TSCW senior, as the Aggie Sweetheart for 1953-54. Miss McBrierty was chosen last weekend from a group of 15 TSCW students. She will be introduced Oct. 17 at the A&M-TCU football game. The 20-year-old secretarial service major will represent A&M at other college activities throughout the school year. Last spring, Miss McBrierty was chosen queen for the annual A&M Cotton ball. She also has been a nominee for A.ggie sweetheart for the last two years. During her sophomore year the Ennis brunette was a ♦■Cotton ball duchess. She was named Crown princess last year year at TSCW’s annual Redbud festival. Her other honors have in cluded sophomore class beauty nominee, junior class secretary, and membership in the Professional Business Womens’ club, a schol astic organization. This year, she also is a member of the Student Council groups in charge of social and religious ac tivities. The A&M Sweetheart committee, arrived Thursday night on the TS CW campus. On Friday, commit tee members and sweetheart nomi nees attended a picnic followed that night by a dance. • The committee announced their selection Saturday moming. Headed By Mitchell Headed by Corps Commander Fred Mitchell, the selection com mittee included B. K. Boyd, 1st regiment commander; Allan Hohlt, co-editor of the Aggieland; Kert Goode, deputy corps commander; Vol M. (Monty) Montgomery and Jimmy Tyree, senior yell leader. Vic Kennedy, 1st composite reg iment commander; Dick Porter, commander of the consolidated band; Gil Stribling senior class so cial secretary; Pat Wood, senior class president; Ide Trotter, stu dent senate president; Bill Row land, senior class vice president; Bill Reed, 1st wing commander; Ted Uptmore, student senator and Joe West, yell leader. Uptmore and West represented the non-military students. Battal ion Co-editor Jerry Bennett and Bob Hendry, Battalion feature ed itor covered the weekend activities for the press. Mitchell Says Paper Quoted Him Falsely Corps commander Fred Mitchell has denied telling the Fox-t Worth Star-Telegram that politics and hometown pressure played a part in se lecting the Aggie Sweetheart. The Star-Telegram quoted Mitchell as saying “Outside politics and pressure from hometowns was much in evi dence.” “I did not say this, or any thing similar,” Mitchell said. “There was no outside politics or hometown pressure involved in the selection of the sweet heart,” he said. Mitchell lead the 15-man se lection committee which chose the A&M sweetheart for 1953- 54. The Star-Telegi’am article appeared Oct 3 in the morning edition. open a path of opportunity along which a boy may, through his own efforts, proceed to secure an edu cation.” When the scholarship was first offered, the college required win ners to keep a 2.00 grade point ratio in order to remain in good standing. Any awai’d student whose grade point ratio dropped below 1.50 was to be put on pro bation. “It was a good idea in theory,” McQuillen said, “but we never had been faced with an individual case. It wasn’t long until one of the boys dropped below the 1.50 require ment. “Upon investigation, we found the boy was having outside pro blems. It would not have been fair to drop the boy, so we dropped the requirement instead.” Grades are not the only reason a boy is dropped. “We had to drop one boy who had a 2.5 grade point ratio because he wouldn’t go to class,” McQuillan said. “The boy ‘told us he wouldn’t go because he knew more about the subject than the prof.” Ninety-seven per cent of the students receiving Opportunity Award scholarships are graduated. Last year’s valedictorian, Robert E. Huffman, of Breckenridge, was an Opportunity Award winner. Better Than Average “Award winners usually are bet ter students than the average,” McQuillan said, “but this can be attributed to the higher qualifi cations.” Approximately 400 students have entered A&M under the Op portunity Award scholarship plan. McQuillan hopes to offer 100 of these scholarship this spring, and is expecting 300 candidates. “The plan’s biggest weakness is getting information to the high school students,” he said. “Many students who would have a good chance of winning an award do not enter because they do not know about it.” A&M will start receiving appli cations for an Opportunity Award sometime this spring. For Intramurals See Page 3 A&M to Send Nine Men to ACU Meet * Approximately six A&M stu dent representatives and three staff members will attend Dec. 4- 6 the Region Nine meeting of the Association of College Unions in Stillwater, Okla. These meetings are mostly to let students discuss problems from the viewpoint of the unions, said J. Wayne Stark, Memorial Student Center director. Ex-Library Head Receives New Post Mrs. John Ebbs, former head of the Cushing library circulation de partment, has been appointed ad ministrative secretary of the Texas Library association. She will maintain the office in her home in College Station and will work under the supervision of Robert A. Houze, college librarian and treasurer of the Texas Library association. Weather Today CLEAR Clear to partly cloudy today and tomorrow. Slightly warmer. High yesterday 71. Low this moming 47. Expected high today 85. Low tonight 54.