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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.