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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.