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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.
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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.