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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 128: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1953 Price Five Cents City To Plan New Sewage System College Station has again de cided to do something about its sewage disposal problem. Mayor Ernest Langford recently appointed a citizen’s advisory board to study the ways of provid ing adequate sewerage service for the city. The first meeting of this com mittee has not been set, but Lang ford said it would be at least a month. “The committee, which repre sents all areas of the city, will dis cuss the various proposals for financing the project.” Langford said. It will cost between 350,000 and £00,000, he added. Fred Benson, city engineer, will discuss with the committee the various solutions and the cost of each, Langord said. Ran Boswell city manager will furnish informa tion on the ways of financing. Langford indicated that there Would probably bo no increase in taxes if the project is carried out. He said revenue bonds, not tax bonds, would probably be used to finance the program. Improving the sewage disposal Would include allowances for any future annexations that the city might undertake. Langford ex- Film Society Tickets Tickets for the A&M Film society are on sale in the Office of Student Activities and the main desk of the MSC for one dollar. The first movie will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the MSC ballroom. The film will be “Across the Pacific” starring Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Mary Astor. pained that additions to the city in any direction could easily be linked to the new system. “We’re going to have to have a better sewer system sooner or later, so we might as well get it started now,” Langford said. Members of the advisory board are Chairman S. R. Wright, J. A. Orr, Charles LaMotte, H. E. Bur gess, F. H. Mathews, J. G. Brown, C. K. Leighton, J. H. Sorrels. C. D. Wells, R. L. Hunt, C. J. Gorzycki, S. L. Loveless, A. P. Boy- ett, Eddie Chew, J. C. Gaines, L D. Smith, T. W. Leland. SLC to Appoint Who’s Who Selection Group A&M’s Who’s Who Selec tion committee will be ap pointed at the Student Life committee’s first meeting this year at 4 p.m. Monday in the Senate chamber in the Memorial Student Center. The agenda also includes a dis cussion of continuation of Aggie Activity Appreciation tickets and the use of profits from Twelfth Man bowl football games. Explanation of funds controlled by the committee, orientation of new members, appointments of standing committees, and a report on the movie, “We Are the Ag gies,” will also be discussed. The selection of a parliamenta rian and a discussion of operating policies of the Student Aid com mittee are also planned. Reveille II Leaves Corps To Live in Non-Reg Dorm Reveille II, A&M’s mascot, has moved from the corps area to a non-military dormitory. Rev was adopted by the corps in the spring of 1951. A house was built for her beside the band dorm, but after a strong wind blew the house over, she would not go back. Thomas B. Waggoner and Thorn es G. Hall, former band mem bers now; take care of her. The mascot now lives in Leggett hall with her two roommates, Hall end Waggoner. She follows Hall to most of his classes. Tillie’s Alteration shop donated two blankets for wear by the dog during half-time activities at foot ball games. Last year Reveille went to all the football games except the Bay lor game and so far has gone to Journalism Profs To Attend Meeting Donald D. Burchard, head of the journalism department, and D. E. Newsom, assistant professor of journalism, will attend a Sigma Delta chi convention in Fort Worth this weekend. Joe Hipp, Gardner Collins and Jerry Bennett, senior journalism majors, are also making the trip and will give short talks on their summer jobs with different state newspapers, working under the journalism interne program. The convention for the profes sional journalism fraternity is to be held in the Texas hotel. Highlights of the convention will be a banquet Friday night, the A&M - TCU football game, a Sat urday night dinner dance and a meeting Sunday morning. the University of Houston game this year. She will go to the TCU game. The band bus carries her to out- of-town games. During the game Rev sits with the band and leads that unit onto the playing field during half-time. Rev gave birth to ten pups on Dec. 5, 1952. They were given to band seniox*s. Drive for Community Chest Set for Nov. 2-14 FOR AN AGGIE—Bill Ray Percival, sophomore for Koff- man, (left) and Alfred (Buddy) Lindeman, freshman from Gonzales, donate money for Charles Arnold, who is a Waco hospital after an automobile accident Oct. 3. Three hundred and three dollars, and seventy-three cents was donated yes terday, the first day of the collection. The jar is located between the Acodemic building and Sully’s statue. Starting tomorrow additional jars will be in the North Gate post of fice and the MSC. Radio Club Offers Fast Telephone Service Fund to Aid Draper Started By Cadet Corps A fund has been started in the corps to aid Leo and Mar garet Draper; who lost most of their belongings in a fire Sat urday night. The plan is for each unit to do nate as much as it can. The money will be collected and deposited in the College Station State Bank by 2 p.m. Thursday. The Draper’s duplex apartment on Cooner street was destx-oyed by fire and they were able to save only a few belongings. Minutes after the fire was discovered the house was completely aflame. Draper lost most of his winter uniforms, his senior boots, all of his Ross Volunteer uniform, a radio and x’ecord player and some bed ding. Cause of the fire is undetermin ed, although investigating officer Cui'tis Bullock found a copper pen ny behind a fuse in the other side of the dxxplex. The other apart ment was occupied by Gene Louitt, an airman at Bx-yan air force base. Corps Dances Start With Service Ball The Service Ball, scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, will be the first corps dance of the year. The dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will be over in time for mid night yell pi’actice, accoi’ding to B. K. Boyd, first regiment comman der. The service oi’ganizations are transportation corps, chemical corps, quartermaster coi’ps, signal coi'ps, oxdnance, army security agency and B composite. The radio club of the Memorial Student Center has again set up a telephone service to other Texas cities. Anyone wishing to send a mes sage or to talk with someone in another town may contact them at no charge thi’ough the radio club, said Cai’l Sherman, president of the x’adio club. The club ran the service last year also. A licensed operator and an as sistant will be on duty every after noon Monday thi'ough Friday from p. m. until 6 p. m. in the radio “shack” at the top of the stairs by the water fountain in the bowling alley. The operator here radios an- Engineer Council Elects President Carl W. Wilson was elected pres ident of the student engineers’ council at its first meeting of the year Wednesday night. A senior civil engineering stu dent from Waco, Wilson is also president of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Other newly elected officers are Hollie Briscoe, vice president; Al len B. Cunningham, secretary; and Jerx*y Ramsey, treasurer. The council discussed the honor system and decided to keep the system as it stands, pending fur ther developments. Other business discussed was dues for member societies and ex hibits for Open House day. other “ham”, as the amateur radio operators are known, in the town to which the message is to be sent. When the other operator an swers, the A&M ham asks him to connect his telephone “patch,” a x’eceiver device which hooks the radio set with the city telephone systtem. Although not as pi’ivate as a telephone conversation, the service is as fast and when lines ai’e tied up, it is e.ye.n fastei' than telephon ing. The radio club will continue opei’ation of the service all thi’ough the football season and longer if enough interest is shown. One di’awback to the operation is that all Texas operators do not have telephone patches. However, in that case, messages can be re layed by phone. Ft. Worth Mothers Give Information The Foif Worth A&M Mother’s club will operate an information booth in the lobby of the Texas Hotel in Foi-t Wox-th for the corp tiip. The mothers will cash student’s checks, i’un a lost and found de partment, and give directions to the stadium. The booth will be open from 8:30 a. m. to 1 p. m. Satur day. Free housing may be obtained by inquiring at the infoi'mation booth or by calling Mrs. T. J. Dywer at WI-9546 or Mrs. F. H. Milrany at PE-9953. Campus Security Gets Car Radios Two - way x’adios for night pat rol work will soon be x - eady fox' use in Campus Security cax-s, ac cording to Fx-ed Hickman, chief of Campus Secux-ity. The x’adios ai’e the two - way type, and will be on the same fre quency as the Bi’yan Police radio. Only one of the x-adios is now in use. Another will be installed in a new Fox’d, which will arrive next week. Law enforcement . officers of Navasota and Huntsville may be contacted by officers hei'e through the Bryan Police. If a state-wdde broadcast is necessai’y, the Hunts ville police will put it on the state petwork. Doak to Speak On Evolution Here Monday Di\ C. C. Doak, of the biology department, will speak on “Evolu tion at Three Levels” to the A&M chapter of the Texas Academy of Science at 7:30 p. m., Monday in room 3C of the MSC. The meeting is open to the public. At the chapter’s first meeting Terrell Hamiliton, junior zoology major fi'om Abilene, was elected president. Delano Castle, junior aeronautical engineering major from Abilene, was elected secre tary-treasurer. Plans were also made to attend the state convention of the acade my at the University of Texas medical branch Dec. 4 and 5. Sevei’- al A&M members will present papers at this convention. A senior plant and soil science major from Harlingen, Richai’d Hensz, is the state president of the Texas Collegiate Academy and will px’eside over the state convention. The A&M Chapter is opexx to anyone with an interest in science A&M May Grant New BS Degree A&M may gi’ant a bachelor of industrial technology degree in the future. A group headed by Dr. C. H Gi’oneman, head of the industrial education department, is trying to obtain legislative action which will make this possible. At present, students specializing in industrial technology are grant ed bachelor of science degrees in industrial education. These stu dents claim the degi’ee does not give any indication of their speci alty. Other departments in the col lege have similar situations in which students specializing in cer tain fields receive degi’ees on a departmental basis. TOWN DROWNS—As tourists watch, water backed up by the new international Falcon dam covers the historic old settlement of Falcon, located on the Rio Grande, 63 miles up stream from Mission. Late August rains brought a sudden decision to close the dam before arrangements to move the towns had been completed. Three Profs Go To SMU Law Meeting Three A&M Faculty members will attend the annual pi’e-law con ference at the SMU law school in Dallas this weekend. Representatives to the two-day confei’ence which will begin Fi’iday afternoon are W. H. Delaplane, dean of the School of Arts and Sci ences; Professor Sam C. Hoyle of the business administi’ation depai’t- ment, and Professor J. T. Duncan of the history department. Highlighting the confei’ence will be two panel discussions cari’ied on by guest speakei’s from the facul ties of Oklahoma university, Rut gers college, Kansas State college and SMU. Budget Hearing To Be Next Tuesday Night By JON KINSLOW * Battalion City Editor The fund-raising drive for the A&M College-College Sta tion Community Chest has been set for Nov. 2-14. This date was decided yesterday by the chest committee at their first meeting of the year. Chairman of the drive this year is Fred J. Benson and vice chairman is R. L. McCarty. The two other officers elect ed by the committee were C. H. Ransdell, secretary-treasurer; and R. E. Houze, publicity chairman. The group chose Tuesday night for the budget hearing. All groups that expect to receive money from the chest are Ho make their requests then. The hearing is scheduled for 7 p. m., but a place for the meeting was not decided. Benson said he asked all in terested groups to have their re ports ready by the Tuesday meet ing. Those not at the meeting will be considered as not wanting money from the chest. “We want to get the drive under way as soon as possible,” Benson said. Temporary plans for handling the drive wei’e also discussed by the committee. It was dicided that each group requesting money from the chest will appoint two people for each $500 requested to aid in the drive. In addition to individual canvass ing, the committee plans to send a letter to each home in College Station. Ax-eas for contact wex-e set up as follows: ® The college ® College Station businesses Other College Station residents © Businesses not in College Sta tion, but who do business in the city. Last year the chest fell $2,079 short of its $11,019 goal. Starting Nov. 3, the drive was extended twice and finally ended Dec. 5. Senate to Talk About Rev, Seating Plan The agenda for tonight’s Student Senate meeting at 7:30 in the senate chambers of the Memorial Student Center, has been released by the exec utive committee of the Senate. Discussion will be held of the Kyle field seating commit tee x’epoi’t. Another item of old business will be a commit tee report on Reveille II. Under new business, the Senate will discuss its self- evaluation, non-militai’y stu dents in dormitories 2 and 4, and the forthcoming Campus Chest drive. Tex Ben eke Dance Tickets Go on Sale Tickets ai’e now on sale at the student activities office second floor Goodwin hall, for the Tex Beneke concert and dance to be held here after the Baylor game, Oct. 24. The concert will be at 7:15 p. m. in Guion hall. Tickets are 75 cents, the dance will be fi’om 9 p. m. to 12 midnight in Sbisa hall. Tickets TEX BENEKE Here for Baylor Game are $2 for couples or stags Beneke is known for his saxo phone renditions of “Body and Soul” and “Embi'aceable You”, his recording of “Chattanooga Choo Choo” set a sales record when he was with the Glenn Miller ox-ches- tra. When Miller was reported miss ing in action Beneke took over leadership of the orchestra. Shirley Jones and Jack Carrol will sing in the show. Beneke is from Foi't. Worth. He appea-red at A&M in the 1951 Town Hall sei’ies. A Armor Places First in Passby A Armor won first place in Tuesday’s first regiment pass-by. A engineers placed last, but no inspection will be held this week, said Leo Mueller, first x’egiment scholastic officer. Other units placed as follows: Band, second; A chemical and A anti-aircraft artillery, third; A field ai’tillery, fifth; B field artil lery and A quai’termaster, sixth; A oxdnance, eighth. B armor and A transportation, ninth; B infantry, 11th; A signal, 12th; and A ai’my security and A infantry, 13th. Officials Won’t Carry Guns on Corps Trip The suggestion that doi’mitory counselors carx-y guns in their cars this weekend to protect students from possible attacks by teenage hoodlums has been called off. Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist ant commandant, said a state law pi’ohibits this action. Wilkins said Tuesday that a col lege official has advised counseloi’s to cari'y guns in their cars during the corps trip. Cato Hightower, Fort Worth po lice chief, told The Battalion that ecent hoodhxm sluggings in Foi’t Woxth had been over publicized and that juvenile delinquency in the city was no worse than dux-ing the past. Wilkins told cadet officers yes terday to warn their men not to travel in groups of less than six persons while in Fort Worth, Cadet Officers Sign New Oath More than 300 cadet officers signed the oath of office at 5 p. m. Wednesday in the Biology Lec ture x’oom. The new coi’ps officers include five colonels, 30 majoi’s, 43 cap tains, 298 fii'st lieutenants, and 59 second lieutenants. Men who were absent will sign their oath at a later date, mili tary officials said. Those cadet officers who were here for freshman orientation week signed the oath then. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Clear to pai’tly cloudy with pos sible scattered thundei’showers late today. Fog tomorrow morning. High yesterday 89. Low this morn ing 62. Tempei’atures today and tonight will about the same.