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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1953)
D. B. COFFER ^ Grcuiat^|]|M0f archivist To 90 PusdQeBt: Of Local JledxJsBCte ait a on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 142: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, TUUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1953 Price Five Cents Group Meets Soon To Discuss A&M Safety Problems A&M’s accident prevention com mittee will lay plans for this year’s work at their Nov. 17 meeting. At the meeting committee mem bers will heai' recommendations for accident prevention and decide on appropriate action, said Bennie Zinn, committee chairman. The committee reviewed last year’s work and recommended several needed safety measures at its last meeting, Oct. 27. “The committee has received excellent cooperation from various individuals and organizations, and much has been accomplished,” said Zinn. Among the accomplishments he listed were the installation of traf fic signs, parking changes, road repairs, stairway and plaster re pairs, electrical fixture repairs, picking up glass from the grounds and cautions about hazards. Some recommendations requir ing consideration and approval of otfier groups are now under con sideration, Zinn said. The present committee was ap pointed in September, 1952. At the same time similar committees were appointed in the other branches of the A&M system. The committee was first formed iy Gibb Gilchrist, former chancel lor. He appointed a single, sys tem-wide committee composed of one person from each branch of the system. The college committee is com posed of representatives from each school of the college, safety ex perts from the industrial education and physical education depart ments, a representative from the physical plants, the cadet colonel ©f the corps, the co-editors of The Battalion and the dean of men. The group formed subcommit tees to work in the different pro blem areas such as buildings, grounds, traffic, recreation and re- creationaT acfTvitfes'.' These sub committees make inspections to look for safety hazards and make recommendations for removing them. “The degree to which we succeed in making A&M safer will depend upon the active support and co operation of all A&M people,” Zinn said. The membes of the committee are Zinn, Welcome E. Wright, Roy C. Garrett, E. B. Middleton, C. E. Tishler, C. M. Simmang, A. A. Price, W. H. Badgett, R. L. Melcher, Fred Mitchell, Jerry Ben nett and Ed Holder. Five Students "Fold To Leave School Five students were asked to leave school Monday for violations of college regulations. Two of them were charged with forging checks with someone else’s fiame in order to collect money. One student was charged with failing to comply with the directive of the dean of men’s office to keep his car off the campus. He is appealing his case to a faculty panel. One student was suspended and one was dismissed on morals charges. $2,900 Donated To Chest Drive Since Nov. 2 The Community Chest has received $2,900 since the drive started Nov. 2. This amount is from five districts and is not complete said Fred J. Benson, chairman of the drive. Almost complete re ports will be turned in tomorrow afternoon at the meeting of the Chest committee, he said. “The percentage of contributions in some departments is running pretty low,” Benson said. “If the $2,900 is any indications of what the drive will be, then I don’t think we will make our goal.” He did not know if the drive would be extended if the goal is not made. Deadline is now Satur day, and the goal is $13,070. “When we get the reports to morrow we will be better able to tell whether of not we will make our goal,” said Benson. THANK YOU—Fred J. Benson, Community Chest chair man, receives a check from Pioneer airlines, presented by Stewardess Gladys Greer of Dallas. Chest Committee Member Robert A. Houze looks on. The College Station drive is now in its second week, with Nov. 14 set as the deadline. Navy Crewmen Star In ‘Mr. Roberts’ By CHUCK NEIGHBORS Battalion Managing Editor For their first play of the year, the Aggie Players overcame diffi cult staging problems to put on one of the best C. K. Esten-directed shows this writer has seen here in three years. Acting honors go universally to News Briefs CARVETH WELLS, West Coast commentator, explorer and author, will speak to the College Station- Bryan Knife and Fork club at 7:30 tonight in Maggie Paiker’s Din ing hall in Bryan. Wells hks also been an engineer, railroad builder and professor. if. He * B. IT. DEWEY, state representa tive from Bryan, spoke to the Col lege Station Lions club yesterday on the record of the 53rd legisla ture. Dewey is a Bryan attorney, and was the author of two bills and co-author of one. A GRASS FIRE at highway 6 and Kyle streets at 1:30 p. m. yes-? terday was put out before any damage was done. Cause of the fire was undetermined. * * * ONE HUNDRED and thirty Texas bankers have registered for the third annual Texas Farm and Ranch Credit School for Commer cial Bankers to be held here Dec. 6-9. The school is sponsored by the School of Agriculture. * * * THE PRESIDENT of the Pusan, Korea, A&M club, Col. Gordon E. Roberts, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster to his Legion of Merit for “exceptionally meritorious con duct” with the prisoner of war command. Roberts was chief of the organized reserve corps before his assignment to Korea. RECENTLY graduated from the U. S. navy pre-flight school were John B. Puckett, Brownsville, and James W. Persons, Rusk. Both are A&M former students. They will now be stationed at Whiting Field, Milton, Fla., for primary flight training. * * * A FIRST SOLO flight was made recently by Thomas C. Cox, Belton, now in training at navy flight school. He is an A&M former stu dent. the members of the crew of the U.S. Navy Cargo Ship AK 601 with special mention individually going to Rick Black, who plays Mr. Roberts and to Carthell Perdue, who portrays Doc, the ship’s medic. Staging the play was difficult because of the number of times scenery had to be changed in each act. Both acts have six scenes. Scenes include the main deck with a cargo hatch and the cap tain’s cabin entrance, Ensign Pul- ver’s and Robert’s cabin, the cap tain’s cabin and the enlisted mens’ compartment. Through the able stage direction “of Rudy Stanislav, the play wa's interrupted only a short time while scenery was changed /between scenes. Harry Gooding, the venerable Aggie Player who has appeared in many local shows during recent years, turned in a fine performance as the captain of the AK 601. A character similar to that of Captain Queeg in “Caine Mutiny” dominates the captain of the rusty old AK 601. ' He is a complete tyrant as far as his men are concerned and it is the battle between he and Mr. Rob erts which makes the play. “Mr. Roberts” has many truly comic scenes, not the least of which is the appearance on board ship of one of the nurses the crew has been spying on through telescopes and binoculars. All of the action in the play takes place aboard the ship. However, effective use is made of offstage sounds and of a public address system similar to the type used on ships. In moments when the play is not showing the bald faced comedy of the crew, it shows how boredom can develop into one of the great est enemies of any armed service. The play will be shown again to night at 8:15 in Guion hall. Ad mission is 50 cents. MSC Coiincil Orders ‘Hats O 0“ for Everyone Reveille Gets Lifetime Food Supply Reveille will get a life-time supply of dog food—free. The Kasco company will fur nish the food for Reveille, pro vided the company gets to use the dog’s name in national ad vertising of their dog food. The offer was made by W. V. Womack, a Kasco distribu tor and uncle of F. E. (Sonny) Tutt, junior animal husbandry major from Hobbs. Houston Parade Details Arranged Student Forum Added To Center Directorate The Memorial Student Center Council voted last night to support a three-year-old corps regulation by forming a policy against wearing hats in the MSC. A cadet corps policy was formed in 1950, when the Cen ter was opened, which ruled that all cadets must remove their caps upon entering the building. The corps made the rule because the Center was a memorial to A&M students killed in war. Until last night, the Council, which operates the MSC and forms its policies, had never enforced the corps regula tion. The Council policy applies to everyone. It will be en~ ^forced in three ways. Assembly areas and times for the Houston corps trip parade have been set. The band will unload their in struments from the vans at 9:15 a.m. Saturday. At 9:20 a.m., all color and guidon bearers and all commanding officers will report to the assembly area, and at 9:30 a.m. the units will assemble. The pa rade will start at 10 a.m., instead of waiting an hour as was done on previous corps trips, Roy Sullivan, corps operations officer, said. The corps will assemble on Bell street. The corps staff and the band will assemble one block east of Main street. Assembly area for the first composite regiment will be two blocks east of Main street. The first regiment will assemble one block west of Main street, and the first wing will assemble two blocks west of Main street. The reviewing stand will be op posite the Gulf building, and the band will be on Rusk street on the west side of Main street. The route of march will be along Main street to Texas A ve. where a right turn will be made, and then down Texas Ave. to Fannin where another right turn will be made and then to the dismissal areas. The first regiment will break up on Clay street, the first wing on Polk street, and the first composite regiment on Dallas street. Uniforms for the parade will be class A winter with white gloves and green overseas caps. Boots and sabers will be worn. The parade is to be graded. Aggie headquarters for the corps trip will be at the Rice Hotel. Corps Dance Set Friday in Houston The first A&M corps dance to be held in Houston since 1941, will be Friday night at The Paladium on Old Spanish Trail. The dance will begin after the freshman football game at Rice Stadium. The Aggieland Orchestra will play for the dance. Tickets cost $1.50 a person and $3 a couple and are on sale at student activities in Goodwin hall. Richard Black, persident of the Houston home town club, is also selling the tickets. Four A&M former students are sponsoring the dance. They are Dick Gottlieb, Houston; Jim Bond, Baytown; T. C. Brennen, Houston; Mike Haikin, Houston. Scholarships Given to Four A&M Students 4£pur students in the flori culture and landscape archi tecture department have re- ceived scholarships and awards. James Winston Burns, a flori culture major from Brownsville, is the winner of the $500 F. W. Hensel scholarship award, the highest honor a student in the floriculture and landscape architec ture department can receive. The Hensel scholarship, named in honor of F. W. Hensel, former head of the department, is spon sored by the floriculture and land scape architecture club from pro fits of the student floral conces sion. The Tom J. Wolfe scholarship of $250 was awarded to Albert E. Cusick, floriculture major from Galveston. The Anderson Achievement Award went to Thomas T. Brady, floriculture student from Dallas. The $150 award is based on achievement and improvement. The Van Valkenburg Award for an outstanding student in land scape architecture was granted to James B. Good of Dallas. J. C. Van Valkenburg, who presents the award annually, is a landscape architect in Dallas. Juniors May Get ROTC Contracts The Army ROTC will have a limited number of contracts to be given at mid-term according to Col. S. P. Myers, professor of Military Science and Tactics. Students not enrolled in Military Science who are classified as a junior with a minimum grade point ratio of one should apply in Room 207, Military Science building. Students enrolled in Military Science should contact their senior branch instructors. • Cardboard signs asking people to remove their hats, will be placed at all entrances. • Announcements will be made at initial meetings of con ferences They will ask attend ants to observe the policy. • Students will be asked to inform their parents and friends of the policy. Jerry Bennett was the only Council member to vote against the regulation. The Council voted to turn off all MSC lights possible during silver taps. It also moved to announce Silver Taps over the Center’s P.A. system. The announcement would be made shortly before the cere mony which honors A&M students who recently have died or been killed. The Council voted to set up a committee which would study add ing a club, devoted to high fidelity sound study, to the MSC director ate. The organization is called the audio club. Council members voted unani mously to add the Student Fonim to the directorate and approved Bub Whitney, Sqd. 21 sophomore, as its chairman. Purpose of the Student Forum is to bring famous speakers to the campus. Bob King was approved as the new chairman of the music com mittee. He replaces Holman King who resigned because of low grades. Ken Hall told The Council he had formed a committee to renew the sex orientation program which the MSC sponsored last year. Hall said the program would be held next semester. Members of h i s committee are Jerry Mosely and Jules Vieaux. Councilman Carroll Phillips said he was making plans to continue the MSC etiquette program. The Council voted to support bringing television to the MSC. It will start a special TV project to find ways to get money for television sets and decide where to install them in the Center. Speaking for the Browsing Li brary committee, Mosley wanted to discuss subscribing to The Daily Wor-ker. The council decided to postpone discussion until its next meeting in December. Missing Drill Field Trees to Be Replaced The trees missing from the main drill field in front of the Memorial Student Center will be replaced as soon as the weather permits, said A. F. DeWerth, head of the flori culture and landscape architecture department. The trees were planted about 1923 in commemoration of A&M former students who died in World War I. MSC Council Probes Dianetics Study at A&M REAL CRAZY!—Ray Anthony leans way back on a high note Saturday night in Sbisa hall. This weekend's dance marked the second appearance of the Anthony orchestra at A&M. He was also here last year. By JERRY BENNETT Battalion Co-Editor College officials must soon de cide if they are supporting the greatest advance in medical sci ence or a cult which may have driv en several of its members insane. The Memorial Student Center formed a committee last night to find out if the study of dianetics by a group of A&M students might be harmful. Dianetics teaches a thought pro cess which is supposed to cure all body and mental ills. It is prac ticed throughout the nation. About 30 students are members of the A&M group which is led by W. S. McCulley of the mathematics de partment. McCulley is also a mem ber of the Board of Governors of the Dianetics foundation. The three man MSC Council committee will meet later this week with W. L. Penberthy, dean of men, to discuss the matter. Committee members are Jerry Mosely, Sam B. Southwell of the English depart ment and Jerry Bennett. Disturbance Begins The disturbance began after Southwell told what he had found out about dianetics. He warned that the council “might be sticking its neck out” if it continued to let the group meet in the MSC. Southwell said he had read sev en out of eight articles which condemned dianetics. Some ar ticles said it was a hoax. Others said it was dangerous. One claim ed that it had caused several per sons to go insane. Southwell admitted he did not understand how dianetics worked. But he thought the magazines’ criticisms cast doubt on whether the council should let people prac tice dianetics in the MSC. Dianetics “indicates something not in our culture” Southwell said. He reminded the council that the MSC’s purpose was to promote cul ture at A&M. He felt that if the Center condoned dianetics “stu dents may be confused as to what our culture consists.” Council President John Samuels explained the council could not stop the dianetics group from us ing the MSC. He said Student Ac tivities gives money to the group. This meant dianetics was recognized by the college. Sam uels said the Center must let any group, okayed by the college, meet there. Some council members still thought dianetics should be inves tigated. Some also thought the word “investigate” was taboo in a resolution. It might make people think the council was against dia netics. So after moments of mental con centration the Council solved its problem. Here is its resolution. “The council questions the rec ognition of the dianetics group by the college and requests the Pres ident (Samuels) to set up a com mittee to decide with the dean of men the matter of evaluation of this organization.” No investigation would be held. But the council was still going to look into the matter. Weather Today Clear with light winds today and tonight. High yesterday 58. Low last night 33. Temperature at noon today 60.