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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 126: Volume 53 PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), Texas, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1953 Published By 1 A&M Students For 75 Years Price Five Cents Senate, SLC Plan Self Evaluation Representatives of the student senate and student life committee took the first step yesterday in re-evaluating- their organizations. They met with the dean of men at 4 p.m. in his office “to iron out all misunderstandings on channels of authority and responsibility.” W. L. Penberthy, dean of mean, started the meeting by briefly outlining the history of the organi zations, and pointing out that the meeting was a part of the re- evaluation program being carried on by the A&M system. He explained the student senate is responsible to the dean of men, who in turn is responsible for stu dent life other than academic. The question arose on to whom does the student senate refer their actions. Spike White, manager of student activities, said the student senate advisor tells senate members whom they should see concerning their recommendations. White said in matters where the senate has no authority the rec ommendation should be routed through the dean of men. Asks for Opinion Ide P. Trotter Jr., president of the senate and representative at the meeting, was asked if there was any general feeling which the senate has concerning its part on student life. Trotter said about the only gen eral feeling is the senate members feel they have no “punch.” Penberthy next brought up the question of how the various classes fit into the overall picture. Walter H. Delaplane, dean of Brts and sciences and advisor at the .meeting, asked where did the ex pression “The senior class runs the school” come from. Senior Class Powerful Penberthy said the president of the senior class several years ago often had as much power concern ing the corps as the colonel of the corps. White offered his opinion that the senior class’ power is in its representatives to the student sen ate. Penberthy pointed out that the senior class in theory is responsi ble to the SLC which in tum is responsible to the Academic coun cil. Trotter said he thought it would be better to call the student life committee a “coordinating body” between the senior class and the president rather than a “policy (See SENATE, Page 2) CAUSE UNKOWN—-The cause of the fire that destroyed this duplex house Saturday night is unknown, Fire Chief Cled Warren, said Monday. The investigation is being con tinued Leo Draper, A&M senior, and his wife Margaret lived in one apartment. TCU Tickets Go Off Sale Tomorrow Tickets for the A&M—TCU game will go off sale at 5 p. m. Wednesday, according to the athletic office. That will be the last chance to buy tickets until the game Saturday. Student tickets are $1.20 and date tickets are $3.60. Those tickets available in Fort Worth Saturday will be $3.60 for evervone. PLANS TRIP MADE Units will form at 9:30 a. m. Saturday for the 23-block long corps trip parade down the main street of Fort Worth. Hall Elected President Of Agriculture Council Ken Hall, senior from Groom, has been named president of the Agriculture council. Other officers are Jim Milligan, vice-president; Leonard Stasney, secretary and treasurer and. Bill Gillespie, reporter. MSC Directorate Adopts Key Plan The Memorial Student Center Di rectorate passed yesterday a pro posal which sets up a recognition system for its committees. The plan is a supplement to the Council’s award system for com mittee members who have worked consistently but not enough to de serve a Council award. News Briefs O f fleers Oath ALL CADET officers who have not signed the oath of office will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the lec ture room of the Biological sciences building, according to Lt. Col. Tay lor Wilkins, assistant commandant. * * # MEMBERS of the Texas Dehy drators’ association met Monday, Oct. 12, to discuss pi'oblems and outlook of the industry for the coming year. * * * HENDERSON SHUFFLER, di rector of information for the A&M system, is at the state fair in Dal las with the Central Water ex hibit, A&M’s contribution to the Weather Today POSSIBLE SHOWERS Today and tomorrow—-Clear and partly cloudy with widely scatter ed light rain showei's this after noon. Maximum temperature in upper 80s. state fair. He will retui’n today or Wednesday. * * * CHANCELLOR M. T. Harring ton, will give the welcome addx-ess Wednesday at the opening of the Texas Nutrition conference in the Memorial Student Center. Di\ J. R. Couch of the depaifments of poul try husbandx-y and biochemistry and nutrition, will be chaircnaYof the conference. Sic Me * A COURSE in supeiwision, job x’esponsibilities, on the job train ing and human relations, will be held here Nov. 16-20. The coui'se will be under the supeiwision of the Texas Engineeidng Extension Service with L. K. Jones, chief supervisor of ti'aining, in charge, * * * DR. GEORGE F. STEWART, head of the poultx - y depai'tment at the University of California, Davis, Calif., will give a lectui’e Wednes day, at 8 p. m. in the lectui’e room of the Biological Science building. His subject will be “The Role of Food Technology in Agricultural Research.” * * * GENE EBERSOLE, of the Texas Lumberman’s association, will be the speaker at the Building Pi-od- ucts Maiketing club’s banquet in the Memorial Student Center Oct. 20. Thomas Leland, head of the business administration depaxt- ment, will be an honoi’ed guest. * * * BILL ANDREWS was elected pi'esident of the Rio Gi'ande Valley club x’ecently. Other officei’s are J. P. Goode, vice-president; Benue James, secretax-y; Dick Pitts, so cial seci’etai’y; and Harold Scaief, reporter. Keys may be bought by commit tee members who have served on the gi’oups for at least two semes ters and who meet the require ments of the individual committees for recognition. The keys will be the same for service committees like the house committee, the publicity committee and the music committee and may be made up sepax-ately for the hobby committees. The bowling committee already has adopted a key which featux-es two crossed bowling pins and a bowling ball. A committee member who has at tained senior classification, has served on the committee for at least four semesters and who meets the requii'ements of his committee for x’ecognition, may purchase a sweater. The Directorate decided to xule out the four semester rule for sen- ioi’S presently sexwing on commit tees and to substitute a two semes ter x'ule instead. The assembly area will be on the lot east of the Main street undei’- pass, by the Texas and Pacfic rail road reservation. Commanding of ficers, guidons, and colors will be in place by 9 a. m. Uniforms will be number one khaki, with white gloves. Boots will be worn, and seniors so equip ped will cari'y sabers. Summer uniforms will be worn to the parade and the football game. Winter unifoi'ms are option al after the game. Older of march for the parade vull be corps staff, band, first re giment, first wing, freshman band and first composite regiment. The reviewing stand will be located in front of the Texas hotel. The band Mull stop across the street from the hotel. , The pai’ade will be graded. There Mull be parking spaces for cai-s near the assembly axea. The Texas hotel will be the Aggie headquartei-s for the corps trip. The Hilton hotel will be TSCW is headquax’ters. College Foundation Program Nears End A&M’s foundation-lifting pro- gi’am is nearing completion ac cording to H. W. Badgett, director of physical plants. Badgett said the last of the foundation work should be com pleted in Novembei’. On the individual projects he estimated the Academic building would be finished in thi’ee or four M r eeks; library, sometime in November; and the Exchange store, two weeks. The Exchange stoi’e is 95 per cent complete and the only diffi culty is one footing that is having to.be rebuilt. Cushing Memorial li brary is over one-half complete and the Academic building foundation is about thi’ee-fourths finished. Fort Worth Mothers Club Sells Corsages The FoxT Worth A&M Mothers’ club will sell white chrysanthemum corsages in front of the Texas Hotel Satuxday before the A&M and TCU game. The corsages will cost $1.50, which is cheaper than corsages purchased from florists. Fifty cents of the profit fi’om each corsage will go to the club and the rest will be used to provide students Muth Opportunity Awards. Council Approves MSC Budget Cut ESTROYS HOME Draper, A&M Student, Loses Most of Property Flames swept through a small white duplex house at 404 Cooner St. in College Station early Saturday night completely destroying the house and damaging the wall of an adjoining house. The origin of the blaze is unknown, said Cled Warren, fire chief. However Curtis Bullock, College Station policeman found a copper penny in a fuse on the side of the duplex oc cupied by Gene Lovitt, an airman at Bryan air fore base, and his wife. The house was located behind Mais’ grocery, at the corner of Sulphur Springs road and highway 6. Leo Draper, A&M senior, lived in the other apartment ♦■with his wife Margaret. They were at home when the fire The MSC council has appi’oved a cut of $1,107.90 in council and dii’ectorate budgets fox' 1953-54. The budgets wei’e cut from $5,- 612.40 to $4,504.50. MSC council president John Samuels told the council last night the cuts were caused by the new MSC financial system. The new system separates MSC finances into three divisions. These ai’e business operations, facilities and student programing. Get $500 Samuels said the directorate committees get an additional $500 for tx-avel expenses. He explained a directorate cut .of $150 was made by having the public relations com mittee make all dii’ectorate posters. Until now, each committee has made its own postei's. The dii’ectorate is composed of MSC sponsored activity and hobby groups. The council approved a new sys- t e m for rewai’ding directorate members for their sexwices to the MSC. (See story col. 2). Samuels said receipts for Rue Pinalle’s first show and dance to taled $69.50. Its expenses were $70.06, he said. The MSC dance, following the Geoi’gia game made a profit of $147.60. Receipts totaled $287.70 and expenditures wei’e $140.10, Samuels repoi’ted. Repoi’ted On Summer Jules Vieaux, head of the commit tee reported on summer MSC ac tivities. Vieaux was in chai'ge of student center activities last sum mer. He said the summer pi’ogram was a success and I’ecommended its expansion. Councilman Carroll Phillips ask ed Samuels if everything had been straightened out concerning fresh men in the MSC. Phillips was re ferring to a college officials x-e- port last month that he had seen a freshman being hazed in the stu dent center. The council pi’esident told Phil- A ext Y ear Indian 5? lips that he had received no simi lar repoi’ts. Asks Samuels Councilman Jerry Mosley asked Samuels if freshmen were coming to the MSC. Samuels said, “I don’t think they are not coming over any more than they wei'e not coming over last month.” After last month’s council meet ing, Samuels told The Battalion that he did not think many fresh men would use the MSC until class distinction was abolished within its premises. Oscar Garcia, head of the dance committee, said he was having no trouble getting fi’eshmen to enroll in his committee. Vieux said several wei’e enrolled in the art committee. Councilman Chai’lie Parker said he had caught a sophomoi-e hazing a freshman in the MSC near vis itors attending a shoi’t course. Parker said he stopped the haz ing. Late Registration Delays Army Checks A late closing date for A&M registration caused Ai’my conti’act checks to be delivered a week later than usual. Military department personnel said the late closing date caused a delay in sending off the September payi’oll. Ordinarily the checks are de- livei’ed by the first of each month. started. Lovitt and his wife were visiting neighbors. No one was injured. This is the story, according to Draper: “Jack Merrill, A&M senior, and his wife were visiting with us and we had just tuned in the A&M- Texas Tech game when Mi’s. Mer- rill said she smelled something cooking. Jack and I were trying to study and listen to the game and didn’t pay much attention to what Mi's. Mei’rill said until we saw smoke coming out of the closet housing the water heater. It was about 8:10 p. m. “I opened the closet door and smoke billowed out. I ran outside to get a bucket of water, thinking that it was just the water heater on fire. When I got outside I saw the other apartment was in flames and yelled to Margai’et to get what she wanted and get out because the house was burning up. “Fi’om the time we noticed the fire until the house was so filled with smoke and flames that we could not enter was about one-and- a-half minutes. “In that short time we saved some of our furniture, Merrill lifted the refrigerator and threw it out the back door, my wife got most of her clothes, and some- where along there the electricity failed. “The fii’e depai’tment got there pi’etty fast but it was too late to save our apai’tment. It did prevent the fire spi’eading to neighboring houses.” , Looking at the chai’red, collaps ed structui’e Monday afternoon. Draper said, “We came out dog- goned lucky.” The Di’aper’s were married last summer. They are members of the (See FIRE, Page 2) WCSC MEETS I’O PLAN WEEK Seven A&M students met yester day with x’epresentatives from the six othei’ Southwest conference schools to discuss activities for Sportsmanship week, which start ed yestei’day and will end Satur day. A&M repx-esentatives to the meeting wei’e Ide Tx-otter, student senate px-esident; V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader; Jerry Robinett, athletic x’epresenta- tive; Ed Holder and Jeri’y Bennett, Battalion co-editoi’s; Harri Baker, executive seci’etai’y of the organiza tion; and Geoi’ge Manitzas, assist ant executive seci’etary. The conference-wide Sportsman ship week is designed to make the students, fans, alumni and teams of each of the schools more con scious of sportsmanship in athletic events. It is a new pai’t of the commit tee’s program, which ali’eady in cludes the annual awarding of the Sportsmanship ti’ophy, the saying of a prayer before each game, the establishment of sub-committees for sportsmanship on each campus and the welcoming committees which visit other schools before games. A&M Plans Program A&M wRl cooperate with Texas Chi’istian university during half time at the game this weekend on a special spox-tsmanship progi’am, which will include reading the Sportsmanship code to the fans and an explanation of the woi’k of the committee. Sportsmanship will also be emp hasized at yell practices hei’e this week, and A&M’s welcoming com mittee will visit TCU and TSCW. Other SWC schools are planning similar assemblies to bring sports manship before the students. All the schools will have a special cere mony at their games this coming Saturday, which will be Sports manship day. Newspapers in Texas, both stu dent and metropolitan, ai’e co operating in publicizing the activities of the week. The committee plans to make the Sportsmanship week and day an annual event, sponsored by the committee. “We also hope to spread the idea of the committee to other con ferences,” Baker said. “Several other conferences have shown an interest in the Southwest confer ence’s Spoi’tsmanship committee. Organized in 1948 The Spoi’tsmanship committee was organized in 1948 by A&M students. The permanent records of the organization are kept here, and the executive secretary is always an A&M student. The Battalion pays for all cor respondence of the organization, and for the permanent plaque given each year to the school win ning the Sportsmanship trophy the year before. The trophy was donated by The Battalion when the committee was first organized. Membership of the committee is composed of each school’s student body president, head yell leader, athletic representative and student newspaper editor. They meet three times a year to discuss and coordinate their work. The Baylor meeting yesterday was the first meeting of the year.