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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 136: Volume 53 Action Is Planned On Making A&M A Safer Campus Bennie Zinn, chairman of the Ac cident Prevention committee is pre paring to take action on sugges tions which would make A&M a safer place to go to school. Committee members recommend ed several needed safety measures at a meeting Tuesday. Zinn told The Battalion yester day that he was ready to take the suggestions to proper authorities. Recommendations included the following: • Bring the college ambulance to Kyle field during football games. Let the Red Cross aid station there operate it in case of an emergency. • Cut low hanging limbs near the freshman housing area. Slippery Steps • Fix slippery steps in the wood en classroom area known as the Shacks. • Place a guard around the Aca demic building dome so students can’t climb on top to erect unit flags. ® Regulate crowds on two nar row stairways in the Academic building. ® Lock trap doors leading to dormitory roofs. Give the keys to designated upperclassmen. Unlock the doors only when necessary. » Fill in low places on cadet marching routes that become filled with water after rains. Warn Students ® Warn students working under their cars in front of Law and'Pur- year halls to keep their legs from sticking out into the street. @ Warn students not to crowd onto the outside of a moving auto mobile. ® Warn students not to play out door athletics near streets or light- posts. # Stop breaking coke bottles on the campus. Basic Division—II Cadets May Obtain y ocational Guidance / By JERRY EofES Basic Division Editor Basic Division counselors can help you decide on a vocation or field of study. Seniors or juniors who are unde- eided on what phase of their field to enter after being graduated may iise the counselors and the voca tional reading room for aid. There is also material for help ing freshmen and sophomores de cide on a field of study. The first step is to discover a Btudent’s interests and aptitudes. Cars Collide At Spence And Hubbard Sts. Two cars driven by A&M cadets collided at Spence and Hubbard streets at 1:50 p. m. yesterday. No one was hurt. Jack Moore and Bill Bass Were drivers of the cars. Bass was traveling east on Hubbard and Moor® was going south on Spence. Moore’s Cadillac was thrown up on the corner of the lawn in front of the Animal Industries building with a dented right rear fender, and Bass’ Ford had the front end smashed. Nickie Blank was in the front seat with Moore. Neither driver blamed the other. Each agreed that he didn’t see the other until it was too late to stop. Moore and Blank are sopho mores in B infantry and Bass is a junior in A field artillery. Of ficers Armstrong and Rosier of Campus Security investigated the accident. “A student should have an ob jective interest in some field of study before browsing in the voca tional reading room,” said S. Aus- ton Kerley, associate director of guidance. * This is not to discourage men from coming in and looking around, Kerley continued, but it would be more to the student’s advantage to have an idea of what type of work he wants to do before looking for literature. Literature on every type of vo cational course taught at A&M can be found in the reading room. Prospective graduates can get the latest information on job oppor tunities and working conditions of their chosen profession. The Kuder book list contains lists of books that describe differ ent occupations. Students interested in graduate work could consult the college cata log file. The reading room has bulletins from most major colleges and universities in the United States. • Love joy’s College Guide gives a description of every college and university. Included are the loca tion, scholarships offered, degrees granted and a short history of the school. The American Universities and Colleges bulletin gives approved schools. It contains more detail on fees, description of the school and student life. Men interested in going to sum mer school can find out what courses are offered by schools near their home. A counselor always goes into the reading room and helps the stu dent find his material. Students who have decided on a vocation should work with coun selors to decide on a course of study at A&M. Soil Shifts Are Cause Exchange Store Repairs Delayed Repairs on the front of the Ex change store are being delayed. The foundation of the building is being strengthened, and two of the reinforced concx-ete supporting posts have cracked. One of these cracked twice. The shifting of soil layers under the building weakened the founda tion, making repairs necessary. This is the same thing that has happened to the foundations of Academic building, the library and the hospital. The foundation is being repaired by jacking up the building, sinking the concrete posts in the ground, and then lowering the building on the posts. The posts cracked when the building was lowered. The final post cracked Friday. It is being repaired today, and the construc tion will be finished soon, ac cording to Carl Birdwell, Exchange Store manager. The floor of the lobby entrance of the building will have to be torn up and relayed after the foundation repairs are finished. A complete remodeling of the interior is planned for the future. The sidewalk in front of the Ex change store will be re-paved. The new sidewalk will run all the way to the sti'eet, doing away with the strip of dirt between the present sidwalk and the street. The Van Cleve Construction Co. of Houston is doing the foundation repairs. New AS Instructor Arrives This Weekend A new air science instructor will arrive this weekend to re place Capt. Ben E. Paschal. The new man, Capt. Edward W. Rodgers, will teach sophomore air science, taking over the sections taught by Paschal. If l £ it f # Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953 Price Five Cents ANY OF THIS YOURS?—A picture of the inside of the Memorial Student Center’s lost and found storage room illustrates the number of lost articles the MSC has on its hands. t Lost and Found Room Owners Of Lost Items Are Sought More Juniors Eligible For Air Force Contracts Yell Practice Set For 5:15 \ This Evening Yell practice will be at 5:15 p.m. today instead of 7:15 p.m. The yell practice will be in cluded in the color film, “We Are The Aggies,” now being photographed by the Photo and Visual Aids department. Planned as a public relations and advertising show, the movie is in color and will be shown to civic groups and in schools throughout Texas. *39 Juniors To Take Observer Test Today By HARRI BAKER Battalion Campus Editor Thirty-nine air force ROTC juniors, who were not added to the air force payroll this year, will take a test today which might win them contracts. These students are now taking air science as an elective. They received a grade of three on the pilot stanine test, which was good enough for them to take air science as an elective, but not good enough to allow them contracts. Air University has announced that students making a grade of three or better on the observer stanine test, will be given contracts. Since these 39 students did not have a chance to take the observer stanine test, they will take it today. If CCTA Chapter Will Form Committees A&M’s chapter of the College Classroom Teachers association will form four committees to help with the state - wide organizations’ work of improving higher edu cation in Texas. The four groups as named by Dr. Melvin Brooks, A&M chapter president, are the legislative, academic standards, research and membership committees. Brooks said the local CCTA might make recommendations this year to the state policy committee for use by the Commission on Higher Education. On Corps Trip By CHUCK NEIGHBORS Battalion Managing Editor The Memorial Student Center is looking for the owners of its col lection of lost and found articles. With a closet closely resembling Fibber McGee’s, the MSC guest rooms lost and found department wants to get rid of most of the things it has accumulated since the Center opened in 1950. Miss Mozelle Holland, guest rooms manager, said, “We have simply outgrown all our storage space for lost and found things.” “Also, the records we have to keep on the possessions are large and fairly complicated.” How to Put in Claim In order to claim an article from the MSC’s lost and found room, the person who lost the item needs only to estimate the day it was lost, the place in which it was lost, if in the MSC, and then must posi tively identify the article. Complete files are kept on the description of lost articles, where they were found before being turn ed in, and the exact time and date they were turned in. Once the clerks have this infor mation, they start digging into the assorted cigar boxes, paper bags and cartons containing lost articles. Lost For Months In many cases, persons receive things which have been lost for months and sometimes years. The MSC is trying to find some way to dispose of articles which have been in the lost and found room more than six months. “To do this,” said Miss Holland, “we are going to have an auction.” “First, however,” she said, “we’ll put all the items on display where most students can view them and try to find the rightful owners of the books, fountain pens and glasses we have. “If there are no takers for the articles^ then we will sell them to the highest bidder, with profits going to the MSC’s student pro gram.” The auction will be a house com mittee project. Many of the articles in the store room are pieces of clothing. Mostly Caps Caps top the list of cadet cloth ing with scarves and gloves at the head of the civilian list. Sun glasses and cases are also high on the list of articles in the closet. The Center also keeps articles left in their guest rooms. A lady’s wrist watch is one of the most val uable items in stock, with a port able radio and several electric ra zors running close seconds. Even pajamas and undergar ments are included in the clothing left in guest rooms and never claimed. Miss Holland emphasizes that if anyone thinks he has lost anything in the Center, he should drop by the lost and found room and put in a claim for the lost item. Staff Seniors WillProbably Carry Sabers All staff seniors will pro bably carry sabers in the Houston corps trip parade said Kyle Gruene, first re giment operations officer, in charge of the project. Those seniors who were not issued sabers or could not borrow them ordered blades at Holick’s Boot Shop. This commission is made up of 46 persons. It was started by Gov. Allan Shivers to help coordinate policies and activities among Tex as colleges. Recommendations from the CCT A would be designed to help the commission in its work. Brooks said these recommendations would be the principal duty of the plan ned legislative committee. Rapid Growth Dr. James Taylor, state CCTA president, recently told a meeting^ of the local chapter that he predict ed rapid growth of the organiza tion. He said that the president of Texas Tech is urging his staff to join CCTA. Although that school does not have a chapter, Taylor said that a large one is expected there soon. He predicted that soon every tax supported college in Texas soon will have an active CCTA chapter. Compile Facts Taylor explained CCTA chapters will compile facts and figures showing need improvements in higher education. This information will be sent to legislators, presi dents, and members of boards of directors. Dr. John Q. Hays of the English department was elected secretary- treasurer of A&M’s chapter at the meeting. they make a grade of three or better, and agree to apply for observer training af ter they graduate, they will be given contracts. Both stanine tests are written tests, composed of problems, mul tiple choice and true-false ques tions. The cadets’ subsistance pay will start from September. “The emphasis last year was on pilots,” said Col. John A. Way* PAS&T. “This year it’s on observ ers.” Men with senior observer ratings are now eligible for command pos itions in all except strictly opera tional units. The aircraft observer ratings in clude navigator, bombardier, radar operator, radar-intercept and navi gator-bombardier. ★ ★ ★ Four other air force ROTC juniors who were taking air science as an elective will be given con tracts. The Air University authorized A&M to give contracts to students in category II (non-flying, techni cal) and category III, (non-flying, non-technical) who were taking air science as an elective. The air science department en rolled three category II juniors and one category III junior on an elec tive basis this year. These men will now receive sub sistance pay, retroactive to the first of the year, but they are not assured of a commission on com pletion of the air science program. They will receive a certificate of completion, but will stand a good chance of getting a commission, ac cording to Way. Transmission Begins Sunday TV Station Outside Waco Will Be Received. Here College Station will be in the “prime” receiving radius of a new television station on U.S. 81 be tween Temple and Waco. Barring unforeseen events, the new 100,000-watt Central Texas television station, KCEN-TV, will go on the air at 5:30 p. m. Sunday. Robert Bartley, member of the FCC, and possibly Senator Lyndon Johnson will highlight the dedica tion program of the station begin ning at 6 p. m., Sunday. The personnel of the staff, NBC officials, legal and engineering con sultants and representatives from 12th Man Bowl Planned Dec. 17 Is Date G1 Annual Army-A F Football Tussle By BILL ROBINSON Battalion Staff Writer The Twelfth Man Bowl commit tee set 2:30 p.m. Dec. 17, as the time for the annual Twelfth Man Bowl. Workouts begin Dec. 1 for team places in the traditional football ri valry between the air force and ground force. Decisions of the committee were: two men from each outfit, two from each non-military dorm and two from College View will be en tered for tryouts; admission to the game will be 50 cents for every one; three coaches will be selected for each team. Cadets will probably march in a pass-by to the game which may substitute for drill that day. The committee set down these rules: each man must be eligible for intramural athletics to enter the contest; 1953 NCAA rules will be followed except concerning sub stitution, which will be unlimited; each team will have only one de fense formation. The game date might be chang ed, but not eliminated, if the var sity team is invited to a bowl game. Half time activities will include tumbling, fish band and fish drill team. First originated 12 years ago by Maj. Hubert O. Johnson, now of the air science department, profits from this game between the air force and army go to the student aid fund. Last year’s game netted $2,034. Ticket sales will be handled through the intramural athletic of ficers and business firms in Bryan and College Station. The committee will meet again Tuesday to check on progress in planning for the game. Committee members are Roscoe L. Hunt, chairman; Bill Dayton, Barlow Irvin, Barney Welch, Wal lace Birkes, Don Jordan, Fred Mitchell, R. E. Pigott, John Seat, Robert Smith, Dale Toepperwein and C. G. (Spike) White, secretary. Temple and Waco will be introduc ed in the hour-long program which will officially announce the station on the air. Due to the limited space at the studio, there will be no formal opening to which the public will be invited. The dedication program of necessity will be viewed over tele vision receivers in the home. All the equipment has been checked out, and a test pattern would already have been on the air had it not been for inclement weather which has prevented the placing of the top half , of the an tenna on the tower. This is now in process and with the completion of the coaxial cable between the antenna and the trans mitter, the' test pattern will be on the air the last of this week, weather permitting. With its 100,00-watt power on Channel 6, VHF, KCEN-TV will be as powerful as any station in the United States, and because of its 833-foot tower, will cover a wider range than most of them. Its posi tive coverage should extend from Waxahachie on the north to Austin on the south, east to Palestine and into San Saba County on the west. The new station is interconnect ed with the network cable from the Moody relay station three miles west of the transmitter, thereby enabling the station to carry live programs as they are ordered by the National Broadcasting Com pany, with which the station is af filiated. Initially, there are many of the hit shows that will not be shown on KCEN-TV although a number will be, such as Groucho Marx on Thursdays, Life of Riley on Fri days, Dennis Day on Mondays, the Hit Parade on Saturday, Milton Berle on Tuesdays, and others. Also, beginning on Nov. 19, Liberace will be seen on Thursdays, and, of course, there will be the usual string of western films and others as well as public service features. While the headquarters office will be in Temple, all the admini strative offices and studios will be located at the transmitter site at Eddy. KCEN-TV’s personnel is headed by Frank F. Mayborn, president of Bell Publishing company, who is putting the 100,000-watt, channel 6 station on the air. Weather Today CLEAR Clear today with temperatures rising to the upper 70’s. High yes terday 69. Low this morning 48. Expected low tonight 50.