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Number 126: Volume 53
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), Texas, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1953
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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
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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.