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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents The Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Number 127: Volume 53 Filming for Aggie Show Starts Again Filming of the final section of the documentary technicolor movie about A&M, “We Are the Aggies,” begins next week. Thirty-one departments of the college will be photographed at that time for the 30-minute sound film, said C. G. (Spike) White, manager of student activities. Under the direction of Harry L. Kidd jr. of the English department, and Howard Berry, head of the photo and visual aids department, “We Are the Aggies” depicts stu dent life at A&M. The movie includes nearly every activity at A&M from student publications to Silver Taps. Every department at A&M could not be included in the film because of time limitations. After its completion, about the first of the year, the film will be shown to high school and former students, A&M mothers clubs and other people interested in the col lege. The idea of the film originated . several years ago when Bob Mc Clure was cadet colonel of the corps. McClure pushed the plan and finally convinced the college to o consider the idea. The plan was abandoned then because of the ex pense it would involve. The senior classes of the years that followed still thought the film was a good idea. They esta blished committees to get funds for the movie. They succeeded in intecesting Various A&M mothers clubs, and managed to collect $1,535. The Ex change store donated $2,500 from its profits, and the fund was esta- * blished. Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of the college at that time, appoint ed a committee to supervise and 6 approve the movie. Kidd consented to write the script for the film and Berry agreed to handle the photo graphy. About one third of the movie was photographed last year. Track, baseball, intramurals, Aggie rodeo, bonfire, parents day, senior ring dance, open house, swimming and reviews were photographed at that time. The last section of the film should be finished by the end of this month, White said. After it is edited and narrated, the movie will be available for distribution. 30 Aggies Will Attend BSU Meet Thirty Aggies will attend the Texas Baptist Student union con vention Oct. 16-18 in San Antonio. They will usher Friday night at the opening program which fea tures Howard Butt, layman-preach er from Corpus Christi, speaking on “Living to the Limit.” The theme for the Convention will be “The Way to Real Living.” About 2,000 students from Texas schools will attend the meeting. Those attending from A&M will be Cliff Harris, BSU director, David Mitchell, president, Bob Bond, Louis McKnight, Joe Reaves, Wayne Beurershausen, De Wayne Peterson, Dick Bumpass, Frank Pollard, Fred Johns, Charles Eu banks, Jimmy May, Joe Van Heselen, Dick Stafford, Jim Trim ble, Bill Edgerton, Henry Halff. Fred Sassman, Gene Hirsch- felt, Don Shepard, Walt Pumphrey, Dayne Scott, Tommy Duncan, Tom Brown, Jimes Whisenant, J. B. Lilley, Billy Bob Gregory, Coolidge Chu, Bill Havens, Paul Roper and Joe Hipp. Bond, Mitchell and McKnight will sing with the 100-voice BSU choir at the convention. Dorm 15 Installs Televisio ii Set A&M’s first dormitory lounge • television set will be installed next week. It will be placed in the redecorat- , ed lounge of dormitory 15. John D. Linton, sixth group operations officer, is supervising the installa tion. The set was obtained from a department store in Dallas, It originally sold for $380, but the ftore repossessed it after the buy- Three Students Win FFA Award The American Farmer degree, the highest award offered by the Future Farmers of America, will be presented to Leonard Berger, sophomore agricultural education major from Winnsboro; Joe Dan Boyd, freshman agricultural edu cation major from Winnsboro; and George W. Murray, junior ag ronomy major from Grapeland. . The award will be given at the National Young Farmers confer ence and National Future Farmers of America convention being held ” jointly in Kansas City this week. Speakers for the convention will include President Dwight D. Eisen hower, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby. J. R. Jackson, assistant profes- teor in the agricultural education department; Jerry K. Johnson, agricultural education major from Nagadoches; and C. A. Edwai-ds, junior agricultural education major from Troy are also attending the convention. Staff Seniors Will Paracle With Sabers All First regimental staff sen- iors will carry sabers in the Ft. Worth corps trip parade. Plans are under way to equip members of all battalion staffs With sabers, said E. K. Gruene, first regiment operations officer. Gruene said these are the first steps in an attempt to revive the pre-World War II regulation equip ment all cadet officers with sabers. “The idea has been approved by the military department,” Gruene said, “one condition that there are enough sabers to go around.” er failed to make payments. The store wanted to charge $85 for the set, but reduced the price to $35 when the students told them what they were; going to do with it. The 21-inch screen set is mount ed on a rolling stand with a rotat ing top. A 90-foot antenna with a rotor which will allow it to be tuned automatically will be erected on the dormitory. The complete installation of the set is expected to cost $125. Since the beginning of the school year, the dormitory 15 lounge has been undergoing a complete “face lifting.” Upperclassmen and fresh men repainted the walls during freshman week. The back wall was painted dark gray and the remaining three walls were painted light green. Venetian blinds were taken apart, painted gray, and the cloth straps were dyed green. The end tables, card tables and door leading from the longe to the main part of the dormitory have been sanded down and refinished. The outside doors have been re painted, and the outside brass lamps have been shined and coated. The dormitory’s name plaque also has been polished. The college donated five gallons of paint for the redecoration. The students expect to spend around $30 dollars on planter box shrubs, table lamps and ash trays. Total cost so far has been $45.50. The lounge should be ready for use by the A&M - Baylor foot ball game, Linton said. Sen ior Fa vors Go On Sale In Goodwin Hall Senior favors for this year are now on sale at the stu dent activities office, second floor of Goodwin Hall. Any classified senior can buy a favor. They cost $4.25 each. This is the first year that the favors have been sold over the counter, instead of on an order basis. The favors are a replica of the top of the senior ring, made by the same company that makes the ring. Favors for the classes of ’51, ’52, ’53 and ’54 are available. PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1953 Price Five Cents mj0 I WANNA HELP—Marvin Tate tries to study history while his brand new son keeps a close eye on the book. The 6 foot, 182 pound junior guard almost dwarfs the baby, who seems proud of the fact that he’s “a little Aggie.” Chief Thinks Thugs Won’t Attack les Salvaggios Get New Car For 50 Cents Mr. and Mrs. Joe T. Salvag- gio, 207 Kosarek street, Bryan, have a brand-new 1953 Ford —and it only cost them 50 cents. The Salvaggios were driving a 1937 model car before their number was pulled out of a hat Sunday night at the annual Knights of Columbus Carnival. Mrs. Salvaggio, who has four children, said about be ing the winner, “It’s just wonderful.” Quizzes Stop Welcoming Group The Student Senate Welcoming committee will not go to TSCW before the corps trip, said V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, chairman. Montgomery said.that the com mittee’s business with the TSCW student senate is being carried out by mail. Montgomery said the reasons for not going were “too many major quizzes and too little time.” Solves Human Problems Dianetics Group Formed; Goal Is Self-Improvement By CHUCK NEIGHBORS Battalion Managing Editor With self-improvement as one of their goals, a few interested stu dents have formed a dianetics dis cussion group. Dianetics is an engineei’ing sci ence of thought, acocrding to its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. As a science, dianetics is new; however, most of its concepts and techniques are not. Many of them can be traced back to Biblical ori gins. 23 Ag Students Plan Field Trip Twenty-one senior agricultural engineering students and two agri cultural engineering graduate stu dents will make their annual fall inspection trip Oct." l*5-f6. They will be accompanied by F. R. Jones, head of the department. The group will spend Oct. 15 in specting the flood control work being conducted by the Soil Con servation service in the vicinity of Corsicana and Kaufman. On Fri day, Oct. 16, they will make a tour of the Ford Automotive as sembly plant in Dallas, inspect the farm equipment, tractor and automotive exhibits at the State Fair. Students making the trip are C. Atkins jr., R. T. Childress, C- A. Collins, J. D. Cowasr, F. S. Koh- lund, W. R. Massey, T. L. Gray, C. M. Jackson, J. W. Jackson, T. H. Keese, A. L. Leon, J. S. Mil ligan, P. M. Orr jr., J. H. Rogers, H. R. Ruffini, L. E. Satterwhite, E. W. Schumaher, J. R. Tarrant, E. T. Tanaguchi, J. W. Trousdale, J. B. Whitaker, Ramon Agrasar and Zacai’ias Valdez. Plii Eta Sigma Send Invitation Letters Letters of invitation to Phi Eta Sigma, the freshman honor society are on the way to students who qualified for admission on the basis of their first year’s work said Weldon Walker, chapter president. A 2.5 grade point ratio for the first and second semesters is the primary requirement for admis sion. Students who feel they are ac ademically qualified for admission yet fail to receive a letter of in vitation may contact John R. Bertrand, dean of the basic divis ion office within the next few days. Dianetics employs techniques and methods which, when used success fully and sincerely, can solve many human problems. The final goal of dianetics, through - self-improvement i s “clear.” When one is clear, he has no “impedances,” a dianetical term meaning a “stimulus-response pat tern which prevents an organism from reaching its goal of clear.” When one is clear, he has no mental blocks of any sort. He has complete control over his body. He can not feel pain because he neither needs nor expects pity. A clear is psychologically inde pendent. This may sound fantastic or even like science fiction, but there are clears. There are highly intelli gent pei’sons who have these at tributes. Dianetics treatments or “audits” as they are called by dianeticists, have resulted in raising intelligence quotients (IQs) by as much as 15 or 20 points. Before dianetics was discovered this was thought to be impossible. Dianetics is a wholly individual thing. A person must have the desire to change his personality or to im prove himself. There are 1137 dianetics tech niques. Any one of these, carried to its fullest extent, will make a person clear. W. S. McCulley, faculty advisor to the group and member of the Board of Governors of the Dianetic Foundation, has used dianetics methods to assist students. Prof Stops Students Who Leave Early A professor here has a sure fire method for keeping stu dents fiom cutting his class to leave early for the corps trip. He asked his students which of them planned to cut his Friday class in order to. leave early. Several of the students held up their hands, thinking that he was going to give them a walk. “Well, in that case,” the professor said, “The speakers for Friday’s class will be. . .” —and he named each of the students who had raised his hand. He has helped students who wanted to improve their eyesight by actually talking them out of their conditions. Dianetics audit ing is not a medical method, ac cording to McCulley. One case which was particularly rough, McCulley recalls, was when a student with 20/200 eyesight came to him for help. Through dianetics and eye exer cises, the student’s eyesight im proved to 20/50 in one eye and 20/70 in the other. Officers for the organization are John L. Hatcher, president; Mar tin Burkhead, vice president; and Leland Pendleton, secretary-treas urer. The group meets every Tuesday night. Mobs Overpublicized, Says Hightower BY JERRY BENNETT \ Battalion Co-Editor Fort Worth Police Chief Cato Hightower believes Aggies will not be attacked by teenage thugs during the TCU corps trip. Hightower told The Battalion last night that the recent outbreak of hoodlum sluggings in Fort Worth had been over publicized and that the city’s teenage crime was no worse than it has been in the past. Several Fort Worth residents recently have reported be ing attacked by hoodlums armed with chains. A 19-year-old TCU student slashed a chain swinging youth with a bolo knife ♦after five teenagers curbed his car on Oct. 1. A Fort Worth truck driver reported that he fought off an attack with a chain of his own. Reports Proved False Hightower told a Battalion re porter that some of the reports of sluggings have been proved false. He declined to say which incidents were true and which were false. The police chief said that Aggies would stay out of trouble if they “will act like gentlemen as they al ways have acted and like I know they always will.” He emphasized the main thing for Aggies to watch was their driving. He cautioned them to drive carefully. Pat Wheland, president of thd TCU student body, said Monday that Aggies should not travel in groups of less than six persons, for protection against teenage thugs. He said TCU students would not cause Aggies any trouble. Wheland asked that Aggies and TCU students help each other if they are attacked by hoodlums. Approves Suggestions Assistant Commandant Taylor Wilkins said he approved Whe- land’s suggestions. He said that a college official had suggested counselors carry guns in their cars during the corps trip. Wilkins said it was not certain that this action would be carried out. Wilkins reported that A&M al ways had more trouble with hood lums in Fort Worth than in anjr other city during a corps trip. He explained that during last year’s Dallas corps trip no Aggie was in volved in any trouble. A counselor’s headquarters will be set up in the Texas hotel. Any Aggie who gets into trouble with (See* THUGS’, Page 2) Ags Reserve Casino Section For Corps Trip Approximately half of the Casino nightclub in F p r t Worth has been reserved Saturday night for Aggies and their dates. Seating about 500 couples, the section was reserved by the Fort Worth A&M Club, said Bobby Woody, president. Ray Anthony and his orchestra will be featured at the Casino that night. The dance will be from 8:30 p. m. to 1 a. m. Tickets for the dance may be purchased in the Office of Stu dent Activities for $3.60 a couple. No stag will be allowed. Although students must have these tickets to enter the Aggie section, they may buy tickets for other tables at the club. Anyone interested in reserving tables in the Aggie section for an outfit party should see C. G. (Spike) White, manager of stu dent activities. Tickets will go off sale at 5 p. m. Thursday, Woody said. Two Officers Inspect AF Detachment Here Col. Axel E. Altberg and Lt. Col. Harley N. Cox of headquarters AFROTC, inspected the air force detachment here yesterday and to day. The inspection is the first of two planned for A&M’s air force de tachment. , The next inspection of the de tachment will be in connection with the Federal inspection of both ROTC units next spring. Milner Named Top Texas 4-H Member Murray W. Milner ji\, E com pany freshman from Brownwood was named the top Texas 4-H club member in farm and home electric activities. He will receive an all expense trip to the National 4-H Chib congress, Chicago, Nov. 29- Dec. 3. Milner is the son of Mi', and Mrs. M. W. Milner sr. of Brown- wood. Jerry Weatherby of Tarrant county and Ruth Anderson of Student Ministers Organize Group A&M ministers to students re cently formed an organization- to work with promoting Christian work on the campus. Charles Workman of the A&M Presbyterian church was elected chairman of the group. The Rev. Thomas Swygert of Our Savior’s Lutheran church was elected secre tary. ‘ Other members are Bob Sneed, Methodist; Cliff Harris, Baptist; the Rev. Robert L. Darwall, Episcopal; the Rev. Clarence Ketch, Church of Christ; and J. Gordon Gay, YMCA secretary. The group will meet the first and third Tuesday of each month at 1:15 p. m. in the YMCA. Any in terested minister is invited to at tend, Workman said. At the next meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 20, they will discuss a theme for the annual student conference to be held here March 12-15. Nueces county will receive the 1953 state 4-H leadership awards. Floyd Lynch, state 4-H 'leader, said each will receive an engraved gold wrist watch. The program is handled in co operation with the National Com mittee on Boys and Girls club work of Chicago. The teenager’ records will be entered in sectional and national competition. Weatherby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Weatherby of Fort Worth, and a member of the Tarrant County - Wide 4-H Club. He has completed five years of 4-H work. Miss Anderson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Anderson of Agua Dulce, and is completing her eighth year of 4-H club work. She is now enrolled in Austin Col lege, Sherman. ME Department Gets Turret Lathe A new $23,000 Warner & Swasey A-l turret lathe has been added to the mechanical engineering depart ment. The lathe was received June 16. It will be used for demonstrating turret lathe operation to students taking the mechanical engineering 310 shop course this year. “War surplus machines were sold by the mechanical engineering department for the purchase of this and other new machines”, said R. H. (Roy) Gibson, instnactor in the M. E. 309-310 shop. Gibson said another new machine will be received soon. Graduate Theses Deadline Is Dec. 18 Filing deadline for theses of graduate students hoping to re ceive degrees in January has been set for Dec. 18 by the Graduate council. Dean Ide P. Trotter of the Graduate School said the deadline date was chosen so theses which had full approval of the students' committee, could be in the hands of faculty readers during the Christmas holidays. “It is imperative,” Dean Trotter said, “that both graduate students and their committees, especially chairmen, check on istatus of re search and thesis writing to allow ample time to meet this filing deadline.” Candidates for degrees at the close of the current session must file application for degree with the Graduate School no later than Oct. 23. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Clear to partly cloudy. Ve r y little change in temperature. High yesterday 88. Low this morning 63.