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Number 144: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1953
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News Briefs
Morgan
To Return
Today
PRESIDENT DAVID H. Morgan
is expected back today from Wash
ington where he has been attending
the annual meeting of the Land
Grant College association this
week. Attending the meeting with
Morgan were John Abbott, dean of
the college; H. W. Barlow, dean
of engineering; and C. N. Shepard-
son, dean of agriculture.
These members of the party
plan to return either tomorrow or
Saturday.
* * *
ROY MOELLER, General Elec
tric representitive will speak to 150
metermen here for a public utility
short course tanight on “Around
the World on the Brigantine
Yankee.” The course will end Fri
day.
* * *
“HOWDY, HOUSEWIVES” is
the title of an hour-long record
program starting today on WTAW.
It will be broadcast at 2 p. m. Mon
day through Friday evcept Tues
day. Charlie Parker will be an
nouncer.
* * *
AMATEUR MAGICIANS in
terested in forming a magic club
will meet Monday at 7:30 p. m. in
room 2D of the MSC, according to
Jerry Schnepp, junior from Hous
ton. The purpose of the club will
be to unite all amateur and pro
fessional magicians in this area,
Schnapp said.
* * *
LEWIS GARDNER, senior from
Hamilton, was uninjured when the
pickup truck he was driving hit a
horse on highway 159 near Hemp
stead Saturday night. The horse
was knocked into the path of
Gardner’s truck by another car.
* * *
CAPT. ROY DUGGAN, infantry,
and 1st Lt. Vernon B. Lewis, field
artillery, will talk on -“Combat
Lessons from Korea” Nov. 19 to
College Station reserve units. The
meeting is open to officers and
men of reserve units of all
branches.
* * *
RICHARD C. POTTS and his
agronomy 417 pasture management
class will make a two-day field trip
to Luling, Southerland and Bee-
ville Dec. 3 and 4 to study different
phases of pasture management.
* * *
ATTORNEY BEN PARTEN of
Franklin ^spoke on state bar
activity to the Brazos County Bar
association Monday. The associa
tion also planned their annual
ladies night, which will be Dec. 14
at .Maggie Parker’s dining room.
* * *
THE MEXIA chapter of the
business and Professional Wo
men's club has invited James
Cavender, senior agricultural edu-
lation major, to speak on “Health
and Safety” at the group’s meet
ing Nov. 17.
* * *
JOHN F. HUPPERTZ, A&M
former student, is now at Reese
air force base to continue pilot
training. He enlisted in the air
force in December, 1952. His home
is Birmingham, Ala.
Aggie Rifle Team
Fires Against Rice
The A&M rifle team tries for
its fourth straight win Saturday
when it meets Rice Institute in
Houston.
The Cadets have outpointed
Texas Christian university, South
ern Methodist university and Bay
lor in previous meets.
Weather Today
POLISHING UP—The Freshman Drill team doesn’t let the dark interfere as it settles
down to mastering the finer points of performance as a team. The group was recently-
cut to its regular members, and these steadies will be parading before large crowds before
long.
Soft Drink Bottles
Are Safely Hazard
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion City Editor
One small bottle can injui’e a
student enough to put him out of
school for the year.
Although no student has ever
left school because of injui’ies re
ceived from a soft drink bottle,
there are. still numerous cases
where students have been severly
cut by the jagged edges of a
broken bottle.
“When dormitory two was ‘float
ed out,’ a student stepped out into
the hall and cut his foot,” said
Bennie Zinn, chairman of the cam
pus accident prevention committee.
“Some people, including both in
structors and students, think we
should quit selling bottled drinks in
the campus buildings,” Zinn said.
The biggest problem is in the
CLEAR
Clear today, cooler tomorrow.
Low last night 42. High yesterday
69. High today, upper 60s. Low
tonight in 40s.
Aggies Receive
Invitation
To Rice Parties
Rice Institute has extended
an invitation for A&M stu
dents to visit their campus
for their Homecoming day
activities this weekend.
“We would like for A&M stu
dents to enter the festivities to
help make this an enjoyable week-
ed for all,” said Bill Turnham,
chairman of the Rice sportsman
ship committee.
Highlight of the weekend for
Rice will be the Homecoming dance
Saturday night at the Rice hotel.
Jan Garber will play for the dance,
which starts at 9:30 in the Crystal
ballroom.
Rice’s annual bonfire and pep
I’ally will be at 7 p. m. Fi’iday,
just before the A&M Fish-Rice
Owlet football game.
Profits from the freshman game,
which will be in Rice stadium, will
be donated to the Holly Hall Home
for the Aged.
The Rice men’s dormitories will
hold open house from 10 a. m. to
noon Saturday.
The A&M-Rice football game
will be Saturday afternoon 2 p. m.
in Rice Stadium.
“The Home coming dance will be
the end of all planned activities,”
Turnham said, “but I’m sure there
will be many private parties at
which A&M student will be we
lcome.”
Ft. Worth Student
Wins Contest
James C. Walden, A&M student
from Fort Worth, won first place
in a design contest for county
courthouses conducted for fifth
year architecture students. Five
cash prizes were awarded in the
competition.
Richard S. Atmar of Bi’yan won
second place, Willard C. Sholar of
Shreveport, third; Pete N. Manos
of Dallas won fourth and Charles
E. Burgess of Houston, fifth.
Designs will be judged with
those submitted by student archic-
tects from Rice, Texas, Houston
and Texas Tech at the meeting of
the Texas Society of Architects to
be held in Austin Tuesday through
Friday.
dormitories. Zinn said this is where
most of the breaking is done. Each
time a bottle is broken in a dormi
tory, the Coke fund loses two cents.
“Some outfits even lose money,”
he said. “Some of the boys are
just throwing them down the
halls.”
In other campus buildings, the
biggest complaint is about students
leaving the bottles in the halls.
Many injuries have been i*eported
in the Geology building where bot
tles have been left on the stairs.
Many times people have fallen
down the stairs after they slipped
on a bottle.
One college employe was hit on
the shoulder by a bottle while com
ing into Goodwin hall. It was
thrown out of a window.
“The janitors on the campus try
and keep the bottles picked up, but
they can’t do the whole job,” said
Zinn.
There is an increasing number of
bottles being left on the streets,
he said. He did not know if the stu
dents were throwing them from
their cars or not.
“Some of the boys leave the
dormitory with a soft drink and
throw the bottle away when they
finish it,” Zinn said.
He also said many bottles were
being thrown in the trash cans.
The main drill field and the field
by Guion hall are other bad places,
Zinn said.
“However,” he said, “the biggest
problem is in the dormitories.”
Firemen Put
New Rope
On Flag Pole
A new rope has been put on
the flag pole in front of Dun
can dining hall.
The rope was put up
Wednesday afternoon by the
college fire department as
part of their bi-weekly fire
men’s training classes.
The firemen used a “church-
rigged” 50-foot ladder to put
the rope on the pole.
The rope was removed
several weeks ago by a unit
placing a flag on the pole.
Board Undecided
On School Contract
The A&M Consolidated school
board of trustees has not awarded
the contract on the proposed high
school.
C. A. Bonnen, president of the
board, said the architects and con
tractors are still working on the
plans and no decision has been
reached.
“We chose the two low bidders
and the architects are meeting with
them to try and cut down the cost
of the building,” Bonnen said. “I
don’t know when we will award the
contract.”
Tickets Available
For Texas Game
Reserve seat tickets to the A&M-
University of Texas football game
are still available, but are selling
fast, according to the athletic de
partment.
There are between 400 and 500
of the $3.60 tickets left. They are
expected to be sold out by the end
of the week.
Date tickets to the game will go
on sale Monday. Only 2000 date
tickets will be available to stu
dents this year.
La Villita DAR
To Meet Tonight
The La Villita chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution will meet at 7:30 tonight in
the home of Mrs. Robert Darwall,
906 Jersey.
Members are asked to bring
clothes, school supplies, toys and
books to pack a Christmas box to
be sent to Tamassee, one of the ap
proved DAR schools in Tennessee.
Gift Committee
Starts Planning
The senior class gift committee
appointed Monday sub - commit
tees to form ideas for this year’s
senior class gift.
Chuck Fenner, chairman of the
committee, appointed Gene Kilgore
and Johnny Samuels as co-chair
men of a committee to gather in
formation and make suggestions
for a class gift. Members of this
sub-committee are Kyle Gruene,
Bill Talvert, Jim Dutton, Bob
Johnson and Stan Baker.
Carroll Philips was appointed
chairman of a sub-committee for
financing the gift. Andy Anderson
and Bill Utzman are members of
this sub-committee.
The findings of the gift commit
tee will be reported at senior class
meeting Monday night.
Dorm 7 Flood liaises
Valve Loss to $500
Probe Starts
News Flashes
Magsaysay Wins
Landslide
In Philippines
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANILA—Tired, ailing President Elpidio Quirino today
conceded victory in the Philippines presidential election to
youthful, vigorous Ramon Magsaysay, who won in a land
slide. The 46-year-old winner, a staunch friend of the United
States, becomes the third President of this 7-year-old re
public. He is to take office Jan. 1 for a four-year term.
Quirino steps out after six years in office.
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OTTAWA—Canada’s Transport Department is building
the world’s first laboratory designed to prove or disprove the
existence of flying saucers. W. B. Smith, engineer in charge
of the broadcast and measurement section of the department,
said today the laboratory or sighting station is under con
struction at Shirley’s Bay, 10 miles northwest of Ottawa, and
should be in operation in a few days.
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AUSTIN—Resolutions opposing a national sales tax and
limiting the amount of income tax that may be levied have
been adopted by the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Also adopted at the federation’s convention here were
resolutions sponsoring adult forums and Americanism and
the legal status of women.
UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. Assembly overrode Rus
sian objections today and called for a thorough discussion of
American charges that the Reds tortured and killed thous
ands of soldiers in “inhuman warfare” in Korea. The dele
gates voted 53-5 for the formal debate in the full Assembly,
Only the Soviet bloc voted against the debate.
★ ★ ★
TEHRAN — Tension mounted in Iran today as Mo
hammed Mossadegh wound up his attack on a five-man mili
tary court’s right to judge him. In Tehran, police locked up
20 high school girls for shouting “Mossadegh is victorious,”
and the city’s military governor, Gen. Farhad Dadestan,
threatened tough measures to curb any disorders. Troops
and police were doubled.
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—The Communist Peiping radio today broad
cast a detailed account of what it termed ‘‘the U.S. govern
ments’ crime of waging bacteriological warfare” in Korea and
Red China. It quoted from “confessions” from 19 captured
U. S. airmen to support the propaganda charges. The airmen,
released later, and the United States have branded the germ
warfare charges false and accused the Communists of ex
tracting the so-called confessions by torture.
For Missing
Flush Valves
The theft early yesterday
of nine toilet flush valves
from dormitory 7, which caus
ed three floors of the building
to be flooded, has raised the
loss of valves this year to morfe
than $500.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
told The Battalion last night that
the case was being investigated.
Each flush valve costs $11.
Dormitory 7 is the seventh dormi
tory which vandels have flooded
since school started. Each time
flush valves have been taken from
toilets. This has caused water to
rush from the pipes and flow into
the halls.
Water still covered parts of
dormitory 7 late last night.
The valves were removed on
the third floor. C. H. (Clancy)
Woliver, commander of A Quarter
master, said he awoke at 4 a. m.
He found his shoes floating be
side the bed.
Water covered the first three
floors. It stood about two inches
deep at the ends of the halls.
Woliver believes the valves were
removed about 3:30 a. m. Students
on the third floor started" sweep
ing water down the stairs. This
helped flood the second floor.
Woliver later received eight
demerits because his company was
late for breakfast formation. He
said, his men were still sweeping
out water at formation time.
The stolen valves were replaced
with new ones.
Car Violators
May Be Expelled
Any student who violates a car
restinction can be suspended from
the college , said W. L. Penberthy,
dean of men.
A student must get five tickets
for his car to be restricted. After
the car has been restricted, it must
be removed from the campus. Then,
the car owner cannot drive his
car on the campus or let anyone
else drive it on the campus.
Neither can the student drive any
one else’s car on the campus.
Students are suspended from
college for this because there is no
other appropriate punishment, Pen
berthy said.
“We feel that five tickets are
sufficient warning to a student,”
he continued.
“A&M is in a bad situation when
its students can’t follow a direct
order after five warnings,” Pen
berthy said. The direct order is for
the student to remove his car
from the campus and follow the
other provisions of the restriction.
A student is not punished when
he receives the first four tickets
if he reports to his dorm counselor
within 48 hours.
A&M works from the policy that
‘Message to Garcia*
Screened Tomorrow
“A Message to Garcia” will be
shown tomorrow night at 7:30 by
the A&M Film society.
The show will be screened in the
Memorial Student Center ballroom.
having a car on the campus is a
priviledge and not a right, the dean
continued. The college streets w r ere
not designed to handle the every
day flow 7 of business traffic and
students too, he said.
That is why students must park
their cars in the parking lots be
tween 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. on week
days and 1 a. m. and noon on
Saturday.
Two Aggies Apply
For Scholarships
Tw 7 o A&M students applied for
the Rhodes scholarship to Oxford
university.
D. W. Williams jr. of College
Station and Bob Staut of Bay-
town will go to Houston Dec. 9 to
be interviewed by the Texas
Rhodes scholarship committee.
Williams, a senior, and Staut, a
junior, are preparatory medicine
students.
The two students chosen by the
Houston committee wall go to dis
trict competition in New Orleans.
In New Orleans the Texas candi
dates wall have to compete wdth
students from Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Ala
bama.
From the 12 students two from
each state, four will be awarded
the scholarship. The scholarship is
valued at approximately $1,400.
Agriculture Heads
Preside for Meet
C. N. Shepardson, dean of the
School of Agriculture and R. D.
Lewis, director of the agriculture
experiment station, will preside at
the Grassland Farming conference
to be held at the Baker hotel in
Dallas Nov. 16-20.
Shep'ardson wall preside Monday
morning, Nov. 16, and Lewis will
preside Monday afternoon.
The conference is being held by
the National Joint Committee on
Grassland farming and the Ameri
can Society of Agronomy to dis
cuss all phases of agronomy.
Others from A&M attending are
Agronomists R. C. Potts, E. C.
Holt, Joe E. Adams and Tom Rich
mond and Agriculture Extension
Specialists W. B. Coke, Ted Trew,
Fred Elliot and Ben Spears.
Ex-Editor Offers
$5 Writing Prize
Frank N. Manitzas, ’52, former
co-editor of the Battalion, has of
fered a $5 prize each month for the
best reporting job done for the Bat
talion by any journalism student,
said Chuck Neighbors, president of
the Journalism club.
Manitzas, now working for the
San Angelo Standard Times, be
lieves the prize will stimulate good
reporting and news gathering. All
students reporting for the Battal
ion, including engineering, agricul
ture and business majors w 7 ho are
taking a journalism course are eli
gible for the prize.
A special committee has tenta
tively been set up to select an
October winner.
Senate Finds
New Problem
In Seating Plan
The Student Senate seat
ing committee ran into a new
problem last weekend with its
revised Kyle field seating
plan.
Should a girl with a regular
$3.60 ticket be allowed to sit in the
student section with her date ? The
seating committee had ruled that
a girl must have a student date
ticket to sit in the student section.
But some students waited too
late to buy their dates the proper
tickets. They had to buy them re
gular priced tickets. So some girls
had to sit on the other side of the
stadium from their dates.
Chairman S. J. Smith, said the
seating committee would consider
this situation before the Univer
sity of Texas game.
Smith said the new arrangement
was more successful than some
earlier systems. The plan was
made to keep visitors out of the
student’s section.
Another purpose was to open
the non-military student section on
a first-come-first-served basis.
Formerly this section w 7 as divided
like the corps’ by class distinction.
Smith said that hundreds of
people were turned away from the
student section because they did
not have the proper tickets. Most
of them had end zone tickets, he
said, and were trying to get stu
dent seats which are nearer mid-
field.
Pass-by Set
For Dee. 17
Bowl Game
A military pass-by will be
substituted for drill Thursday,
Dec. 17.
Students will march in a
graded pass-by to the annual
Twelfth Man Bowl football
game between the army and
the air force teams, the Bowl
committee announced Tuesday.
Air force students will sit
south of the 50 yard line and
army students north of the 50,
said Wallace Birkes, publicity
chairman.
The next meeting of the
committee will be Tuesday,
Dec. 1.