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FJ 2 copies Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 124: Volume 53 News Flashes State anil Federal A u th or Hies Clash On Kid napi ng Case By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS—State and federal authorities may fight it out here today for the right to prosecute Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, who are being held in the kid- nap-slaying of little Bobby Greenlease. The pair—an ex-con vict and his sweetheart—are scheduled to be arraigned in federal court on charges of extortion. ★ ★ ★ UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—U.S. and other U.N. troops will defend Indian guards and other members of the Neutral Repa triation Commission in Korea if South Korea unleashes troops agains the neutrals, a U.S. spokesman emphasized today. ★ ★ ★ SEOUL—The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission today accused the Allies of trying to stall away more of the dwindling 90-day period allotted for interviews with 23,000 war prisoners who refuse to return to their homelands. ★ ★ ★ GEORGETOWN, British Guiana—Britain rushed reinforce ments by air to this uneasy colony today as seaborne troops were believed disembarking here under tight military secrecy. ★ ★ ★ SYDNEY, Australia—Another of the quadruplets born to a 38-year-old grandmother Tuesday died today, leaving two alive. They were born to Mrs. Ethel Hudson, wife of a fence builder and mother of eight other children. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Texas school teachers should make as much money as the average industrial worker, and to achieve this goal would requires a $560 raise, a six-member study group cautiously agreed today. The group is a subcommittee of a 26-member conference seeking a compromise of the pay raise problem at the request of Gov. Shivers and the Texas State Teachers Assn. ★ ★ ★ JUAREZ, Mexico—A huge quantity of narcotics was seized today by Mexican narcotic agents in a raid on a house in Juarez. Gen. Pablo Cano Martinez, Juarez police inspector, described it as one of the largest amounts ever taken in the border city. ★ ★ ★ ^ WASHINGTON—The New York Times said today that Eis enhower “has decided to put a stop to loose official talk about the Soviet Union’s possible hydrogen bomb and related subjects.” System Executives Discuss Secretarial Training Course Heads of schools, services and departments discussed yesterday afternoon management aspects of how to improve secretarial work throughout the A&M System. Executives of college and sys tem offices on the campus discuss ed hov to improve instructions to their wetaries, how to improve their . chniques in giving dicta tion and how they could improve their secretaries’ loyalty to them and their offices. A movie, “Telephone • Courtesy” produced by Bell Telephone Co. was shown Monday and Tuesday at the secretarial training course Fiscal Payments Due Until Oct. 16 The second installment pay ment, of $55.15 is now due. Payments will be accepted at the fiscal office until Friday, Oct. 16, without penalty. Payments made after this date will be charged one doller for each day after Oct. 16. Items included in the payment now due, which covers the period from Oct. 17 to Nov.18, are board, $40.60; room rent, $11; and laundry, $3.55. The installment for the period of Nov. 18 to Dec. 17 will be due Nov. 1-18. It will be $44.75. The final payment of the semes ter, due Dec. 1-17, will be $41.75. in. the MSC ballroom. Because of the enthusiasm shown by some of the women attending the course, further topics may be discussed at a later date, said Henderson Shuffler, director of system information and publica tions. The training course held on the A&M campus will be conducted at other times throughout the system. All the collegiate branches as well as the services will give secretarial training courses, Shuf fler said. Band Wins Pass-by Of First Regiment The band won first place in the first regiment pass-by Tuesday night. B infantry and A anti aircraft tied for second. Other places were: A field artil lery and A armor, Fourth; A chemical, A infantry and A trans portation, sixth; A quartermaster and A army security agency; ninth; A enineers, A signal and A ordance, 11th. The winning unit receives five points for the General Moore award and the last place outfits have a formal stand-by inspection. College Buys Sedan For Official Travel A new Ford Country Sedan has been bought by the college to sup plement the three Chevrolet busses now in use for official trips. An additional car is to be bought. Bids on this car were opened in Austin Wednesday. The Ford, which seats eight people, is now being used by the dairy judging team on its trip to Waterloo, Iowa. Lubbock Officials Welcome Aggies Tom Harrington Chancellor A&M College of Texas Texas Tech College and all citizens of Lubbock, welcomes you, all faculty members, stu dents, ex-students and friends of A&M college to visit Lub bock this weekend. We are happy that your very splendid band is going to parade. L. E. (Jack) Davis, presi dent, Red Raider club. Murrell R. Tripp, Mayor of Lubbock. Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1953 Published By 1 A&M Students For 75 Years Price Five Cents Unidentified Persons ‘Float-out’ .Dormitory 2 : ' WATER DAMAGE—Ray Smith, first sergeant of B Com posite inspects an M-l rifle for possible damage. The com pany’s rifles were on racks in the gun room of dormitory 2. The building was flooded early Wednesday morning by unidentified vandals. SWC Rule Forbids Cheaper Tickets Because of a Southwest confer ence rule, A&M students cannot expect lower-priced football tickets for their dates and wives, accord ing to Barlow (Bones) Irvin, di rector of athletics. At present, date tickets are $2.50 for games played on Kyle Field and $3.60 for games away from A&M. The lower price for home games is possible only be cause a conference rule allows end zone tickets to be sold at the $2.50 price. Tickets for other games must be sold for $3.60, because a conference rule says that the $1.20 student ticket .can only be sold for use by a student. If the student ticket is used by anyone except a student, the op posing college can demand pay ment of the difference. Southern Methodist University demanded Provides Best Sanitation and receive such payment from A&M a few years ago. The A&M athletic department now offers a $9.60 seasob ticket, valid for all games played here, to student wives. No other school in the South west. conference has such a plan. It is not possible to offer the $1.20 student ticket to wives because of the ruling which limits their use to students only. Emphasizing that A&M students should not expect lower priced tickets for their dates, Irvin point ed out that only through : a thorough examination of the rule book was the $2.50 ticket for home games possible. “A&M students do not seem to realize that the athletic office does not set the ticket price,” Irvin said. “Furthermore the student does not expect prices in the MSC to be lowered for his date.” < Army Still Has 26 Contracts For Juniors a surplus of 26 junior contracts be cause of poor academic records and a drop in the number of transfer students expected to take advanced military science. The Fourth army allotted A&M 380 contracts for this year. Out of 525 of last spring’s army ROTC sophomores, only about 325 were qualified for contracts this fall, Myers said. This figure was raised by air science students who transfered to army ROTC. Myers indicated the principal reason for the decrease was poor grades. Approximately 14 transfer stu dents who enrolled in army ROTC September resigned from the course, Myers said. He said about half the new transfers, who could have taken advanced army ROTC, either did not apply or dropped the course. There were 354 new army ROTC contracts awarded this fall, Myers said. This figure is 26 short of the number of contracts which the Fourth Army allotted A&M. Myers .said that he estimated last spring that the army ROTC here would need about 400 contracts for juniors enrolling this fall. Fourth Floor Flood Damages Entire Dorm The identity of persons who flooded dormitory 2 early yesterday morning was still unknown today. Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy told The Battalion that the college had not uncovered a lead. A number of unidentified persons went up to the fourth floor of the non-military dormitory about 3 a.m. and removed ten flush valves from the toilets, said Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. He believes more than one person was involved because one person would not take the risk of being caught removing the valves by himself. After the valves were removed water flow r ed and soon every room and hall from the top to the botton of the dorm was three to four inches in water. According to Zinn, many ♦•students had shoes, suitcases ■r- - , and other property damaged Important People Visit A&M. Campus All kinds of official people come to the A&M campus. Take, for instance, the green sedan parked in front of Good win hall yesterday. In an official-looking sticker on the back window big black letters showed the importance of the car’s owner/ The sticker said, “Official U. S. Government Taxpayer.” Building Construction Causes Heating Failure Ten college buildings were with out heat because of construction on the hot water lines, said T. R. Spence, manager of the physical plants. The central heating system of the college is out of operation for Law, Puryear, Hart, Bizzell, Good win, Bolton, and Guion halls, the College Administration building, the Memorial Student Center and the YMCA. The extension of the heating ; system to the new Physical Edu cation building and to DeWare field house required changing the five-and six-inch hot water lines in the heat tunnel to eight-inch lines, Spence said. The new pipe has been installed for some weeks now but delivery of the eight new expansion joints to go in the new lines has been de layed by a strike in New York, Spence said. “The contractor on the work had been expecting delivery for several weeks, hoping to get the lines com pleted before the cold weather started,” Spence said. “When he learned that it will still be several weeks before the expansion joints can be expected, he started work ing installing some substitute joints.” Modern Dairy System Processes A&M’s Milk used provides the best sanitation milking equipment is one of the processes attainable. The complete- newest buildings on the campus, ness of the sanitation process The department moved into the A&M students are served milk leaves no possibility of any germs building May 1, 1952. The build- By JAY IRELAND Battalion News Writer and milk products from one of the most modern dairy systems in the nation. “The dairy barn and milking or bacteria occuring in the finish ed product. Van der Zant said. Each cow is inspected daily to apparatus of this college are the cleanliness and freedom vrnlctpin nnH rnwtj said W. disease. Before each milking Holstein and Jeisey cows. thp f-nws’ iiHrlprs strp washed t.r> fed. Each animal receives an allot- ing, located two miles northwest of the campus, contains all-new equip ment. The dairy husbandry department Caif Van e, der aV Zantf e, dairy 1U hu^- the‘'cows’ ~udders~~are washed "to T he animals are pasture and grain bandry department. ’ ‘ further insure sanitation. The automatic milking method The- building that houses the ^Av^^^ ■kmpjpy 68 of the A&M dairy handle the machines which automatically., .milk IpO cows a day. The cows are trained to step up to the milking machine as soon as the animal in front of them has moved on. ed amount of soft feed before each milking. The dairy milks between 140 and 150 animals each day. This number is divided almost equally between the two breeds. They are now milk ing 4 research animals which are crosses between Brahama and Jer sey breeds. The record milk pi’oduction for one animal for one day is 105 pounds, or twelve gallons. Each animal produces an average of approximately three to four gal lons a day, according to Dr. Isaac I. Peters of the D H department. Modern Creamery A&M also has one of the most up-to-date creameries in the state. Although the building which houses it is several years old, the equipment is the latest available. The creamery has one of the latest pasturizing machines in pro duction. With this machine, milk can be pasturized completely in only 16 minutes. All milk pro duced is grade A homogenized. After being pasturized the milk passes through another of the numerous cooling vats. The milk is tested again for impurities, and then is bottled and capped. The creamery also produces all the frozen milk products used in the mess halls. The creamery is experimenting with the production of cheese and othei’ milk by-pro ducts. Winter Uniform Is Optional for Game Students can wear winter uni forms for the football game in Lubbock this weekend if they want to. The winter uniform can be worn in Lubbock, and going and coming. Students remaining on the campus will not be allowed to wear winter uniforms. It is not yet known when the corps will change to winter uni form permanently. “It depends on the weather,” said Fred Mitchell, corps com mander. Delaplane to Serve As Economics Head Dr. Walter H. Delaplane, newly appointed dean of arts and sciences, will also serve as head of the economics department for the time being and possibly until the end of the year, said Dean of the College J. P. Abbott. Delaplane was promoted from head of the economics depai’tment to dean of arts and sciences at the Sept. 26 meeting of the board of directors. Delaplane will divide his time between the two jobs, Abbott said. Aggieland Requests Outfit Pictures All student photographers should begin collecting snap-shots of their outfits to appear in The Aggie land ’54, said B. C. (Dutch) Dutch- er, co-editor. Pictui-es of outfit activities, dances, stunts, or accomplishments will be used in the annual. These shots will be called for later by editors of the Aggieland. beyond repair. Although there is no esti mate of the total damage to the building. Ten flush valves worth $11 each are missing, Zinn said. The incident was first 1’eported when W. G. Breazeale, dormitory 2 counselor, arrived at 8 a. m. and saw water running through the doors. He phoned for janitors to clean up the building to lessen the water damage. Must Be Stopped Speaking for the college on the incident, Zinn said, “We, the col lege, want such occurrences stop ped because of the great waste of time on the part of whoever re moved the valves, and also of the students in the dormitory”. BULLETIN Six flush valves were re moved from the toilets on the fourth floor of dormitory 6 last night. Because the flood was discovered sooner, damage was not as heavy as in dormitory 2, said Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. The “float-out” occurred about 4:30 this morning. By the time water was turned off, there were from two to three inches of water on the fourth floor. j ★ “In addition” he said, “every floodout causes needless damage to student property and to buildings. Every time a dormitory is flooded, considerable damage is done to floors and walls by water seeping through and running down tha pipes. This water also causes fall ing plaster and cracks paint,” he added. Steps were taken to discover the identity of the vandals, Zinn said. J Rodeo Team j Will Go To Sam Houston ! A team to represent A&M at the Sam Houston State college rodeo was elected Tuesday night by the Rodeo club. The rodeo is sponsored by the Nation Intercollegiate Rodeo as sociation. Members elected to the team and the events in which they are enter ed are Bobby Rankin, steer wrestling, bare-back bronc riding, ribbon and tie-down calf roping; James Dickey, steer wrestling, bare-back bronc and saddle bronc riding. G. A. Burleson, steer wrestling, bare-back bronc and bull riding; Virgil Patrick, ribbon and tie down roping; and R. S. Higgins, steer wrestling, bare-back bronc and bull riding. Buddy Fincher and Tom Mont- gofnery, arena repair chairmen, gave a progress report at the meeting. They asked that anyone wishing to help repair come out to the arena. Rankin, club president, said entry fee books will be open at the saddle and sirloin club meeting Tuesday night. Those unable to pay entry fees then may pay later, he said. Weather Today