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Number 131 Volume 53
Shirley Jones
Tex Beneke Vocalist
Group May Alter
Award Point Plan
A special six-man committee may
recommend changes next week on
how to select a coxps unit for the
General George F. Moore trophy.
The trophy is awarded each year
to the outstanding unit in the ca
det corps.
The committee is composed of
three juniors and three seniors.
Juniors are John Benefield, Pat
Wheat and Frank Ford. Seniors
are Carl Wilson, Kerb Goode and
Bob Manner. They met yester
day with Assistant Dean of Men
Bennie Zinn.
Members suggested changes
which they will consider before
meeting next Tuesday. Any rec-
ammendations will be made then.
Changes must be approved by the
dean of men, the commandant and
the dean of the college.
The Moore trophy selection is
based on a point system. Each
unit receives points for its cadets’
scholastic grades, military records
and intramural and extra curric
ula activities. The unit having
the most points wins. Grades rate
highest in the competition.
Non-Military
Ushers Wanted
At Baylor Game
All non - military juniors
and seniors interested in be
ing ushers at the Baylor game
Saturday should Contact
either their dormitory Stu
dent Senators or their housemas
ters.
Any non-military students in
terested in serving in the same
capacity at the SMU and UT
games should do likewise, said
Seymour Smith, chairman of the
Student Senate special committee
on Kyle field seating.
Non-military ushers will have
reserved seats in their class sec
tion and will have the satisfaction
of seeing the seating arrangement
work out better than it has in the
past, Smith said.
A special usher training session
will be held Friday night. The
training session should not last
longer than a half hour, Smith
said.
Non - military Senators and
housemasters should turn in to
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men,
the names of at least two seniors
and juniors who have volunteered
for usher duty.
The names should be turned in
by 5 p. m. Thursday, Smith said,
so the ushers can be notified of the
time and place of the training
session.
Points are given for membership
in 48 student offices and organ
izations.
Zinn said the Memorial Student
Center directorate and its commit-
ties wanted on the list. He asked
the group to decide on this addi
tion by Tuesday.
Suggestions made yesterday in
cluded :
• Giving more points for extra
curricula activities and less for
grades.
• Making Ross Volunteer mem
bership eligible for points.
• Deciding if points should be
given for extra-curricula activities
which draw pay.
Asked the Committee
Committeeman Wilson said a
definite basis should be establish
ed for awarding points for extra
curricula activities.
He asked the committee to de
cide on one of the following: par
ticipation alone, the good the ac
tivity does the college, or the
amount of time it takes.
The Moore trophy was first
awarded in 1946. This committee
is the first to evaluate the selection
system since 1949.
Arnold Better
After Accident;
Fund Grows
Charles Arnold is “much
better” and “doing very nice
ly'’.
The A&M junior was in
jured in an automobile ac
cident near Waco Oct. 3. He is
in Waco Hillcrest hospital.
Hospital authorities said Arnold
may be able to return to his home,
Sherman, in four weeks.
His pelvis was broken in five
places and he also suffered an ab
dominal wound. Doctors at Hil-
crest said that if Arnold’s con
dition continues to improve, he will
be able to walk with the aid of
crutches by May, 1954.
Arnold is now able to see
visitors.
A fund for Arnold started by
his friends here now totals $475.20,
with the collection still continuing.
Collection boxes are in front of the
North Gate post office, in the Me
morial Student Center and in front
of the Academic building.
Arnold’s room and boaid at
Hilcrest cost $10 a day, plus the
costs of doctors, operations,
X-rays, medicine and other treat
ment.
Battalion
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1953
Price Five Cents
asses
Community Chest
13,070 Budget for Drive
In the Miller Tradition
Tex Beneke and Orchestra
To Play after Ba ylor Game
By JOHN AKARD
Battalion Staff Writer
Tex Beneke and his “Glenn Mil
ler orchestra” will play for a con
cert and a dance Saturday night
after the Baylor game.
The concert will be at 7:15 p. m.
in Guion hall. Tickets are 75 cents
a person.
The dance will be from 9 p. m.
to midnight in Sbisa hall. Tickets
for the dance are $2 stag or drag
and are on sale at the student
activities office.
Shirley Jones will be featured
vocalist on the program. Jack
Carroll is the male singer with the
band.
When Glenn Miller was declared
dead after being reported missing
during World War II, Beneke form
ed a band in honor of the orchestra
leader. He got permission from
Mrs. Miller to use the old Miller
arrangements with the new band.
Beneke’s last appearance here
was in 1951 when he was on the
Town Hall program. At that time
he played his versions of “St.
Louis Blues March”, “Everybody
Loves My Baby”, “Stardust” and
others to a capacity house.
Senior Court
Revises Policy
On Notification
Cadet offenders who don’t
show up for Senior court this
year will have a hard time
making excuses.
The court has started a new
policy to make sure a cadet knows
the time of his trial, the charge
and the names of his accusers.
Four written notices will be
used.
The first will be filled out by
the accuser and sent to the Com
mandant’s office. It will state the
offender’s name, organization, of
fense and when and where it was
committed.
The commandant will decide if
the offense needs court action. If
it does, he will give the notice to
Senior Court President Bob Boyd.
Boyd will then send notices to
the accused, his unit commander
and witnesses to the offense. The
accused’s notice will name the of
fense, witnesses, accusees, and time
and place for the trial.
The other two notices will con
tain similar information. The ac
cused cadet will have 24 hours to
prepare his defense.
Last year only the accused was
told of the trial. He was notified
by a slip of paper which did not
state the offense.
Some cadets did not appear for
trial. Several claimed they were
never notified. Others said they
did not know they had committed
an offense. Some notices were de
livered too late for cadets to pre
pare a defense.
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant
commandant, said the new system
was suggested last year by Cadet
Col. Lyle Wolf skill.
Cafe Rue Pinalle
Op ens Friday ]\lite
The second performance of Cafe
Rue Pinalle will open at 8 p. m.
Friday in the Memorial Student
Center bowling area.
Tapers Combo will provide dance
music for the cafe. Jeri’y Schnepp
will be master of ceremonies.
Admission to the French-style
night club will be 60 cents a per
son.
Charles Arnold Fund
Previously collected $445.80
Collected yesterday 29.40
Ft. Worth is “home” to Tex. It
was there, during his high school
years, that he formed a trio in
which Ben Hogan, the now famous
golfer, played drums.
Tex got his first saxophone when
he was nine, and was “mad about”
it from the start. Bands in those
days demanded that bandsmen play
two instruments, so at 14 Tex
took up the clarinet. He didn’t have
time for formal lessons, so he
worked out his own fingering sys
tem, -which he still uses.
While playing in a band at the
Texas Centennial in 1936, Tex met
a dancer from the Billy Rose
organization; three months later
she became Mrs. Beneke. They
have lived out of a suitcase most
of their married life, except during
World War II when Tex was lead
ing a naval band at Norman, Okla.
In 1938, Gene Krupa, the drum
mer and bandleader, recommended
Tex to Miller, who was forming
an orchestra. Miller signed Tex,
giving him a start up the ladder.
Tex’s real name is Gordon Lee
Beneke, but his Texas accent earn
ed him the nickname “Tex” when
he went to play in the Miller band.
Tex never thought he could sing.
One night on a trip through New
England with the Miller band, he
began to sing for his own amuse
ment. Glenn heard Tex and im
mediately gave him a vocal spot
in the show.
Tex at first protested, but
audience response soon convinced
him that the people liked his sing
ing. His vocal rendition of “Chat
tanooga Choo Choo” set a new
sales record of almost two mil
lion copies.
Miller had often encouraged Tex
to form a band of his own. It was
only natural that at Miller’s death,
Tex should organize a band to car
ry on in the Miller tradition. The
band met with immediate success.
It has played in such places as
Hotel Statler, New York; Hotel
Sherman, Chicago, the Palladium,
Los Angeles; and the Paramount
and Capital Theaters in New York.
Beautifying
In Central
Begun
Campus
Removal of sidewalksi and grad
ing of the area in front of the
Academic building opened work
Friday on a new phase of campus
beautification.
The first step in the program
will be construction of the new
sidewalk system pictured below.
In addition, a concrete plaza, 90
by 110 feet will surround the sta
tue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross.
A large number of redbud and
other trees will be placed in the
newly lands>paped area.
Before work can continue on the
remainder of the central campus
area, Ross and Pfeuffer halls will
have to be torn down.
Tree planting wil be started as
soon as the sidewalk system is fin
ished, said A. F. DeWerth, grounds
maintenance chief. The system
should be completed within a
month or two if good weather
holds up, said Howard W. Bad-
gett, director of physical plants.
The landscaping- and filling pro-
Total
$475.20
Drive Combined
With Red Cross
A $13,070 budget was set last night by the A&M College-
College Station Community Chest-Red Cross for their drive
this year.
The drive will be held Nov. 2-14.
During the budget hearing last night the chest com
mittee decided to combine their drive with the Brazos County
Red Cross. To comply with national Red Cross rules, this
combining requires the name “Red Cross” be included in the
name of the Community Chest drive.
Last year the Red Cross did not receive funds from the
chest, but collected $1,800 in a separate drive.
The committee agreed that since the community chest i$
-f-an attempt to consolidate all
fund-raising drives into one
campaign, it would be best to
include the Red Cross in the
Chest drive.
Fred Benson, chairman of
the drive, said, “We should em
phasize that the Community Chest
drive is not just for charity organ
izations. It is also a plan to put
all fund-raising drives into one.”
The committee also agreed to
ask for “one day’s pay” from each
person in College Station. Basgd
on income figures for the college
and College Station businesses,
one day’s pay from each person
would amount to about $23,090,
Benson said. He based his de
cision on a monthly incomes of
$700,000.
No requests were received by
the committee from the Youth
committee and the National Foun
dation, for Infantile Paralysis. The
Bryan YMCA, which received $400
last year, is now defunct, said
Bennie Zinn, committee member
and last year’s chairman.
All requests for money made be
fore the committee last night were
accepted. These requests are
follows: * •Sji
Brazos County Tubercu
losis association .$ 1,000
Girl Scouts 2,900
Red Cross 2,500
Boy Scouts 2,570
Salvation Army
Brazos County Hospital
Charity fund
College Station Recrea
tion program 1,000
College Station, YMCA ....
United Service Organiza
tions (USO)
American Cancer society..
Local Chest Charity fund
(Include needy school
children fund) 1,500
Expenses (Office supplies,
mailing costs, secretarial
help, etc.) 100
gram will take about two years,
DeWerth said.
DeWerth hopes the new side
walk system will keep students
from walking on the grass in front
of the Academic building.
The whole improved section will
include an area from behind the
Physics building to the other side
of the Mechanical Engineering
building and nearly all land areas
in between.
After Austin hall is torn down
and a proposed addition is made
to^ the Electrical Engineering build
ing, a parking lot will be built be
tween the Exchange store and the
EE building.
Robert F. White did planning
for the landscape architecture por
tion of the scheme.
Curbs and gutters for better
drainage will be placed around the
Hart hall parking lot, Badgett
said.
All gravel walks on the campus
are planned to be paved with rock
asphalt, Badgett said.
500
600
400
600
300
Goal for 1953 drive $13,070
Fori Worth
Civic Leaders
'’raise Cadets
Two prominent Fort Worth
civic leaders praised A&M
cadets after the TCU corps
trip last weekend.
L. R. (Dutch) Meyer, TCU
athletic director and former head
football coach, and Walter R.
Humphrey, editor of The Fort
Worth Press, paid the compli
ments.
In a letter to Dean of Men W.
L. Penberthy, Meyer wrote that
cadets conducted themselves in a
way that “was certainly enjoyed
and appreciated by everyone” at
TCU:
The famed ex-coach also toast
ed the Aggie football squad that
defeated the team he directed for
many years. “The team also play
ed a very inspiring and courage
ous game,” he wrote, “and the
type of football that an old soldier
likes to see, even if it is against
the kids he loves so well.”
Humphrey wrote Monday in his
daily column that the corps pa
rade was an impressive spectacle.
“It gave me a tremendous lift, re
affirmed my pride and hope irt
American (specifically Texas)
youth.”
The editor ended with “Tout
couldn’t find a finer looking greaf
of young men anywhere.”