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Number 135: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1953
Price Five Cents
Grades May Be
Given Less Value
For Moore Trophy
A special student committee re
commended yesterday that grades
be given less value in the awarding
of the Gen. George F. Moore
trophy.
The trophy is given annually to
the outstanding unit in the cadet
corps, on a basis of grades, mili
tary proficiency, intramurals and
extra-curricular activities.
Grades now count 50 per cent
of the total score of each unit, with
military proficiency 25 per cent,
intramurals, 15 per cent, and ex
tra - curricular activities 10 per
cent.
Grades 40 Per Cent
The committee recommended that
this be changed to make grades
count 40 per cent, with military
proficiency 25 per cent, intramur
als 20 per cent, and extra-curri
cular activities 15 per cent.
Fall semester grade point ratios
count four - fifths of the scholastic
rating. The other one - fifth is
taken from the spring probation
list. Names appearing on the list
are counted against the units.
The committee recommended
that three-fourths of the grade
rating be taken from the fall
grades, and one-fourth from the
spring probation list.
“The change will evaluate the
outfit more as a well-rounded out
fit,” said Kert Goode, one of the
committee members. Other com
mittee members were Bob Manner,
Frank Ford, John Benefield and
Pat Wheat.
The recommended change has to
be approved by the Executive com
mittee before it can take effect.
The Executive committee is com
posed of all the deans of the school
Znd the commandant.
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of
men, said he would put it before
the Executive committee at their
meeting next Tuesday.
Effective this Year
The student committee recom
mended that the change in grading
be made effective this year, if
approved by the Executive com
mittee. They added to the recom
mendation that “If it was not
considered advisable this year, that
the change be considered for next
year.”
This is the first committee that
has ever proposed a change in the
major policy of the rating, Zinn
said. The award was established
in 1946. A committee evaluated it
in 1949.
The committee also recommend
ed changes in the number of points
|iven for the 48 extra-curricular
activities included in the rating.
MSC Artists
Invited To
Houston Show
The art gallery committee
of the Memorial Student Cen
ter has been invited to exhibit
paintings and sketches in the
annual Houston Allied Arts
Exhibit which begins Nov. 14.
Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry, ad
visor, said each member of the
committee will probably exhibit
only one picture in the show.
This is the third year the MSC
art group has been invited to the
show.
Another art show in which the
art gallery committee has been in
vited to exhibit, is the Texas Fine
Art show in Austin Nov. 15.
About six or seven hundred en
tries from all over Texas are ex
pected in the show. Monday is
the deadline for entries.
Only six of the art gallery com
mittee members belong to the Tex
as Fine Art league, Mrs. Terry
said.
After the show, seven ‘circuits’
or separate shows will be sent
around the state for exhibit in
schools and colleges.
About 30 paintings are in each j
circuit.
A collection of paintings from
the private collection of Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. Strauss of Houston will
be hung here Monday.
The Strauss’ have one of the
largest and finest contemporary
art collections in the South, Mrs.
Terry said.
They recommended point de
creases for the following:
® Band members, from two
points to one, because “it concen
trates those points all in one out
fit.”
• Aggieland orchestra members,
two points to none, because they
are paid, and “it’s just like a re
gular job.”
The committee recommended the
following point increases:
® Student senators, from two
points to three, because “they work
a lot harder than some of the
other activities.”
• Vice presidents and secretaries
of technical societies, no points to
one, because “their jobs are im
portant.”
The committee will meet again
at 5 p. m. Thursday to consider
more changes in activity points.
To be considered are giving
points to member of the Memorial
Student Center directorate and its
committees, and changing the
number of points given to letter-
men and squadmen in major and
minor sports.
COMPRESS COLLAPSES—Terrell’s only cotton compress
was damaged when an overloaded platform collapsed under
the load of Kaufman county’s bumper cotton crop. The
accident delayed the movement of cotton.
Over 100 Members
Largest Cub Scout Pack
In Texas Located Here
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion City Editor
College Station has the largest
Cub Scout pack in the state.
members registered, boy,” Byrd said. “However,
Pack 102 has nearly twice the num
ber of cubs as the average pack,'
said Capt. C. L. Byrd, cubmaster.
“We now have 97 active mem
bers, but I expect this number to
increase to about 120 by the
spring,” he said.
The College Station cubs also
held the first packwide track meet
in the nation. The meet was hald
in 1949, and has became an an
nual affair of the' pack'. After the
meet, which is held in the spring,
the entire pack holds a picnic.
Other athletic competition with
in the pack is the summer swim
ming meet.
Each cub pack is- divided into
dens, with one mother in charge of
each den. There are about eight
boys in each den.
“We try to have a maximum of
nine boys in the dens so the den
mothers will have more time for
we have had to put more cubs in
some dens because of the large
number of boys in the pack.”
Each spring the pack also holds
a kite flying contest and a cub
scout banquet. They also have
camping trips each summer. The
last two years, the pack has gone
to Camp Arrow Moon near
Benchley.
These overnight camp-outs are
a cub-and-dad affair because each
cub must be accompanied by an
adult, Byrd said.
December 5 has been set aside
by the cubs as Good Turn Day.
They will also try to get 10 new
members by December 15. Byrd
Guion Tickets Given
To Some Students
Student activities will award
tickets to Guion hall theater to
participants of extracurricular ac
tivities.
Those qualifying are Athletic
“T” card holders, band seniors,
cadet officers whose rank is lieu
tenant colonel and above, junior
and senior class officers.
Unit commanders, drum and
bugle corps members, student pub
lications editors; freshmen numeral
winners for major sports, two
semesters after award.
Housemasters, junior and senior
intramural managers, Singing
Cadets officers, Student Life com
mittee members. Student Senate
members, training room assistants
and yell leaders.
“The Student Life committee has
authorized this in order to pro
vide a slight award for these stu
dents efforts and to serve as an
incentive for these students”, said
C. G. (Spike) White, student
activities manager.
The tickets will be issued to the
students concerned from the of
fice of Student Activities beginn
ing Nov. 9. The holder of the
ticket must pick it up himself.
Each student will receive 16
tickets for the entire school year,
1953-54.
The tickets may be used in any
way. A student may take 16 friends
Adventure at 82
LEWISTOWN, Mont.—(-5*)—Life
at home got too tame for 82-year-
old Millie (Mothball) Jones so she
jumped into her 1925 Model T Ford
and headed for Alaska. The sharp
and spry woman said she was go
ing to Fairbanks to accept a job as
a saloon hostess.
to one show, or he may attend 16
shows himself.
The student will have to pay the
10 cent federal tax with each
ticket.
A student may qualify for only
one set of tickets, regardless of
the number of his activities.
said he is certain they will reach
the goal.
“The large number of cubs in
the community shows how much
interest there is in scouting,” said
Byrd.
A pack meeting is held every
fourth Thursday each month. These
meetings carry a different theme
each month, and the den presents
a skit. Although usually only par
ents come to the meetings, Byrd
said the public is encouraged to
attend. >
The meetings are held in the
A&M Consolidated high school
gymnasium.
In 1952, the cubs participated in
the get-out-and-vote campaign.
During this project the cubs rang
doorbells and left pamphlets at
each house urging the people to
vote in the November election.
The new scout field executive
for this area is Phil Leonard Mc
Pherson from Houston. He will
move to College Station when he
finds a house for his family,
Byrd said.
Den mothers and the areas they
represent are Mrs. John Pruitt, Col
lege Hills; Mrs. Virginia McCan-
non, Oak Terrace; Mrs. George W.
Reynolds, Kyle Street; Mrs. R. E.
Collins, College Hills; Mrs. I. G.
Adams, South Oakwood.
Mrs. Truman Jones, College
Hills-Woodlands; Mrs. Jack Fu
gate, Hardlicke Addition; Mrs. J.
K. Riggs, The Knoll; Mrs. George
L. Huebner, South Oakwood; Mrs.
R. J. Baldauf, College Hills, Mrs.
Ernest Wright, Ayrshire.
MSC Receives $20,000
From Exchange Store
Intramural Program Gels
$7,500 Share of Profits
The Exchange Store Advisory board allocated $20,000
yesterday for use in Memorial Student Center activities.
A motion to approve the allocation was made by C. G.
(Spike) White.
Other organizations benefitting from the Exchange
Store profits this year are the Aggie band, which will receive
an unspecified amount around $1,000. The intramural pro
gram received a gift of $7,500.
The Exchange store declared a net profit of $30,007.91
for the 1952-53 fiscal year.
As has been done in past years, most of the money
was given to the MSC. which has had no outside help from
♦the state.
This year the Center will
receive $39,830 of state
money to operate the adult
education program of short
courses and conferences.
Since the profit-sharing venture
was begun in 1945, the Student
Center has received $192,645.93
from the Exchange store fund. In
addition, in 1940-50, the MSC got
$50,000 from the Exchange store
working capital to the union’s
building fund.
The duties of the board are:
® To advise and counsel the Ex
change store manager, giving him
suggestions on how to better serve
the faculty, students and guests
of the college.
® To offer constructive criticism
and suggestions which will im
prove services in the store.
• To receive, review, investigate
and recommend appropriate action
to the president of the college on
all complaints, protests, claims,
changes and criticisms filed by
persons or groups, concerning
policy or service of the store.
® To work with and advise the
management concerning public re-
(See EXCHANGE, Page 3)
Aggieland ’53
Gone, More
Here Monday
Students who have not pick
ed up their annuals will have
to wait until next Monday. The
first supply is gone.
Twenty three hundred Ag-
gielands were issued Monday
and Tuesday by student publi
cations.
Carl Jobe, student publi
cation manager, said more
Aggielands Will arrive Mon
day. One thousand of these
will be wrapped for mailing to
students homes.
One hundred students were
waiting at 10:30 a. m. Mon
day when the issueing began
and the last Aggieland was
given out at 3:45 p. m. Tues
day to Russell Orr, sophomore
from Houston.
Ag School Sets
Off - Camp us
Short Courses
The School of Agriculture
has planned dairy and beef
cattle off-campus short cours
es for November.
R. E. Leighton, dairy hus
bandry department, will teach the
dairying short course, Nov. 9-13 in
Canton County courthouse. J. K.
Riggs, animal husbandry depart
ment, will teach the other Nov. 16-
20 in the PCA building in Wills
Point.
Enrollment in both courses is
limited to 30 persons or less.
Planners include Jack Mallory
jr., livestockman from Wills Point;
H. C. Murray, dairyman from
Wills Point; Russell Howell, live
stockman from Van; Jack Lester,
dairyman from Wills Point.
Ralph Liston, livestockman from
Wills Point; John Sourovik, Ex
tension Service District agent from
Mt. Pleasant; T. W. Berry, county
agricultural agent from Canton.
Arthur Barlemann jr., assistant
county agent from Canton; Ben
Cook, assistant to the dean of
A&M’s School of Agriculture,
and Riggs.
THEY’RE HERE—Mrs. Norma Mayeaux gives out Aggieland ’53’s to Buddy Vance,
squadron 16, and James Armstrong, A field artillery. The annuals are being distributed
on the first floor of Goodwin hall. Students must show their identification card to pick
up an annual.
MSC to House
New Western
Union Office
The Western Union office in
the Exchange store will move
to new quarters sometime in
December or January.
The Memorial Student Cen
ter is making room for the tele
graph company in the telephone
center of the MSC, said J. Wayne
Stark, director of the Center.
Decoration of the new office will
feature a desk setup in colors
which will harmonize with the MS
C’s interior decoration plan, Stark
said.
A desk about thi*ee and a half
feet high will enclose the east wall
of the telephone center opposite
the five phone booths. Inside the
desk will be both the telephone
switchboaid and the Western
Union machines and operators.
Stark feels the new operation
will add to the services the MSC
now offers to the school and the
community.
“Also,” he said, “the Western
Union office will not take away
from any of the student activity
or meeting rooms.”
The desk itself will be con
structed of limed oak with a
formica plastic top.
The C. M. Trautschold company
of Waco will do the construction
work on the new office.
Most of the transfer of equip
ment and lines will probably be
done during Christmas holidays,
Stai’k said.
The new telegraph - telephone
center is expected to be open when
students come back to school after
Christmas vacation.
Singing Cadets Will
Give Concert Dec. 5
A&M Singing Cadets with 56
member^ will give their first out
of town concert of the year, Dec. 5,
in New London.
This will be the glee club’s first
performance in that city.
Bill Turner, director of the
Singing Cadets said he did not
wish to disclose further informa
tion about future trips because he
did not want to schedule concerts
without definite information.
Officers elected last spring are
Bill Wiseman, senior architecture
major from Dumas, president; Hol-
lie Briscoe, senior chemical engi-
neei’ing major from Bay City, vice-
president; Gene Holman King,
junior electrical engineering major
from Abilene, business manager;
Lamar Ashley, junior agronomy
major from LaFeria, reporter-his
torian. Harry Scott, sophomore
business major from Amarillo was
elected librarian this year.
Other members of the Singing
Cadets are first tenors E. W.
Riviere, H. D. Maxwell, Orlando
Parsiros, Ken Rivoire, Richard
Reynolds, Bill Jackson, Norris
Beard, J. E. Oberndorfer and
Frank Roberts.
Second tenors Don Luttrell,
Band Boosters
Make $500 Profit
The A&M Consolidated Band
Boosters club expects to make
between $475 and $500 net profit
from the sale of CommunityCalen-
dars.
This profit will be used for the
CHS band.
Total collections were $710, said
Mrs. Walter Varvel, president of
the club.
The calendars will be distributed
about the middle of December.
Pen and pencil sets were award
ed to the students making the
largest sales of date listings and
calendars.
They were Jeffrey Smith, fifth
grade, first; Donald Reiser, fourth
grade, second; and Joe Brusse,
fifth grade, third.
The calendars will carry at 25
cents each listings of birthdays, an
niversaries, and meeting dates. The
calendai's cost 50 cents each.
Oscar Sebesta, Frank Hines, Mike
Kirkpatrick, Ben Blankenship,
Charles Willis, Ed Burkhead, Wins
ton Sexton, Ray Stratton, Doyle
Lovvrey and Horace Smith.
Baritones Ray Lacour, Gerald
Leighton, Bill Williams, Waddell
Williams, Jimmy Harrison, Glenn
Baxter, Tom Haynes, Ralph Clem
ent, Bill Young, Dick Van Tyne,
Dan Galvan, John Sutton, Val
Canon, James Miller, Warren
Chapman, B. B. Ray and D. G.
Leake.
Basses Martin Burkhead, John
Brannen, Billie Woodall, Jeridau
Strong, Dale McCullough, Ronald
Bretz, John Shelton, Ralph Ewing,
J. L. Blair, Rodney DePue, Ralph
Benton, Lolan Pullen, George
Fehrmann and Charles White.
Antiaircraft Unit
Wins Baylor Passby
AAA won the pass-by before the
Baylor - A&M game. This placed
them in the lead for the annual
Best Drilled Unit award which
they won last year.
Second in the pass-by was squad
ron 14, followed by A ordanance;
tied for fourth were squadron 10
and the fish band; the consolidated
band was sixth with squadron 5
and squadron 9 tied for seventh.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear today with temperature!
rising to the upper 70’s. High yes
terday 69. Low this motniht 4$.
Expected low tonight 50.