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Eight Aggies Held
In Austin Tuesday
BIG STICK — A&M’s traditional bonfire is. being built
around this 60-foot center pole, which went up yesterday.
The hole for the pole was drilled by Hole Milstead Founda
tion Drillers, of Bryan, and the pole was lifted into place
by Donald Conlee of Bryan’s Conlee Brothers. Both firms
donated their time.
News Briefs
DR. EVELYN L. BLANCHARD,
extension nutritionist with the U.
S. Department of Agriculture in
Washington, D. C., arrived here
Tuesday. She will hold confer
ences this week on the extension
foods and nutrition program in
Texas.
* * *
LT. JACK W. BIRKNER, ’52,
received the Purple Heart medal
recently. He was wounded while
leading a platoon of the 7th In
fantry in Korea. Birkner’s home is
Bay City.
* JK
THE A&M COLLEGIATE chap
ter of the American Foundrymen’s
Society will tour the Lone Star-
Steel company at Daingerfield Fri
day. Nineteen students will make
Hie trip.
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GEORGE ROBERTSON, animal
husbandry department, will pre
sent a thesis to the American So
ciety of Animal Production in
Chicago Nov. 25. The paper will be
on swine research work he has
been doing for two years.
* * *
STUDENT SENATE will meet
at 7:30 p. m. in the MSC senate
chamber. They will discuss the im
provement of radio programs, din
ners at A&M with Southwest Con
ference student councils and float-
outs and stealing of flush valves.
* * *
A TRAINING COURSE for
management and supervisors of
Texas industry being held here
will close Friday. The course, under
the supervision of the Engineer
ing Extension service, started Mon
day.
* * *
GEORGE HUNT, director of
Vocational education in agricultur
al on the state board of education,
will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.
to the A&M Future Farmers of
America chapter.
THREE A&M STAFF members
will be judges at the Houston Fat
Stock show in January. They are
Dr. Jack Millei’, head of the animal
husbandry department; Di\ W. G.
Kammlade jr., in charge of sheep
production; and J. H. Jones, ex
tension beef cattle specialist.
* * *
HAROLD DUNN, president of
the Former Students association,
will be the speaker for the Ross
Volunteer’s initiation banquet Dec.
10.
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THE A&M CHAPTER of Alpha
Zeta, national agi’iculture honor
society, will hold its formal fall
initation Dec. 14 in the Memorial
Student Center. About 50 stud-
dents are being considered for
membership.
* * *
CHANCELLOR M. T. Harring
ton was recently reappointed to
the executive committee of the As
sociation of Land Grant Colleges
and Universities meeting in Colum
bus, Ohio.
Seven A&M sophomoi-es were I
held for a short time in Austin
Tuesday night for questioning by
Austin police authorities.
Five freshmen were apprehended
by University of Texas campus po
lice.
Both groups had paint brushes
and paint in their posses
sion at the time the pickups were
made. Police reported the cadets’
brushes were dry however.
No Formal Charge
No formal charge was made by
Austin or UT police and the Ag
gies were released after a short
time.
Assistant dean of men Jack
Holland of UT said some unidenti
fied persons, assumed to be Ag
gies, did an undisclosed amount of
damage to university property and
to UT fraternity houses Monday
night.
U of H Will
‘Allow’ Three
To Resign
“Appropriate diciplinary ac
tion” has been taken against
three students of the Univer
sity of Houston for their part
in the beating of thi’ee Aggies
Saturday night in Houston.
The Iniversity refused to re
lease the names of the stu
dents, but unconfirmed reports
say two of them were fresh
men football players.
Another reliable source said
the three men “will be allow
ed to resign.”
W. L. Penberthy, dean of
men, has not received word.
He said A&M is working very
closely with the U of H on the
incident.
Unidentified persons also paint
ed several automobiles with mar
oon paint.
Mustang Statue Painted
The statue of the Mustangs at
Littlefield memorial near the Me
morial stadium was also painted.
A&M students caught in Austin
Tuesday also had several orange
and white Austin street signs.
The freshmen are members of C
company. The sophomores are in
squadron 6.
State Law Bans
‘Worker’ in MSC
Next Session
Set for Monday
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON—(FP)—Senators investigating the Har
ry Dexter White case called a temporary lull today but gave
no sign of abandoning their efforts because of President
Eisenhower’s suggestion that the need for such inquiries
may soon be ended.
Sen. Jenner (R-Ind.) said he did not know where or
how far the inquiry by the internal security sub-committee
he heads would lead. The group’s next session was set for
Monday afternoon, but there was no announcement whether
witnesses would be heard then.
Jenner told newsmen that “for the first time we have
been able to show” that FBI reports on suspected individuals
♦■“reached the hands of top
officials,” and he added it was
The MSC Browsing Library com
mittee can not subscribe to the
Communist newspaper. The Daily
Worker.
A bill passed at the last session
of the Texas legislature made buy
ing Communist literature against
the law for state supported schools.
The proposal to buy the news
paper was made at the last MSC
council meeting by Jerry Moseley,
senior dairy manufacturing major
from Coleman. The matter was dis
cussed, but referred to the next
council meeting.
It has been the policy of the
Bi’owsing Library committee in the
past, said committee chairman Bob
Miller, to take suggestions from
students as to what magazines and
newspapers they wanted in the
library.
These suggestions were consider
ed by the committee, and if worth
while, the publications were sub
scribed for, he said.
Since several students had asked
about subscribing to the Daily
Worker, council member Jerry
Moseley was asked to present the
suggestion to the group.
Miller said the primary concern
of the Browsing Library commit
tee was to provide recreational
reading matter rather than edu
cational material.
Students interested in the news
paper may find it in the stacks at
the Cushing Memorial library, he
said.
A&M’s $350,000 Calculator
Is One of 25 in the World
A&M has one of 25 existing cal
culator laboratories in the world.
There are only four in operation
the same size as the $350,000 cal
culator operated by the A&M Re
search foundation.
Operating an average of 45
weeks a year since its installation
in 1947, the calculator occupies a
complete laboratory on the second
floor of the Electrical Engineering
building.
According to the laboratory
schedule, the calculator will be in
use for the remainder of the year.
The laboratory was established
through the cooperation of 10
electric utility companies who con
tracted for services on the cal
culator or made grants to the
foundation.
It is the only one operated in
connection with a school that has
two control desks which permit
the study of two problems sim
ultaneously.
Lewis M. Haupt is supervisor of
the laboratory, and W. S. Lindsay
is in charge of the laboratory’s
operations.
They are assisted by Mrs. Jacky
Green, part-time operator; Salvio
Navarro, graduate student; Mrs.
R. L. Watson, secretary; and three
student assistants, J. P. Sutton,
H. A. Breedlove and C. F. Jack.
TV Aerial Planned
For PE Building
Tentative plans are set to place
a master antenna for all campus
TV sets on the new PE building.
“The antenna would be extremely
costly and would have to be install
ed before the completion of the
building,” said John Samuels, MSC
president.
Conduits would be run to build
ings wishing TV sets, including the
Memorial Student Center.
Donations will finance the pro
ject. Charlie Parker heads the
campus-wide fund drive.
Engineer School
Is Reaccredited
The A&M School of Engineering
curicula has been reaccredited by
the Engineers Council for Pro
fessional Development.
The ECPD, which is the official
organization in the United States
for accrediting schools of-engineer
ing, examines schools every five
years.
Results of the examination made
here last spring were found to be
satisfactory, and the School of
Engineering was officially accred
ited.
Dairy Short Course
Scheduled Dec. 5
The annual Dairyman’s short
course will 'be held by the daii-y
husbandry department ■ December
3 - 4. in the Memorial Student
Center.
The short course is designed to
serve dairymen, pldnt fieldmen,
feed company fieldmen and others
interested in discussions of pro
blems in the field of dairying.
Marketing products of the dairy
cow will be the principal topic of
discussion for the first session of
the course. Other sessions will in
clude topics on feeding, breeding,
management and diseases of the
dairy herd.
Professor A. L. Darnell will pre
side over the Thursday session and
R. E. Burleson, extension dairy
man, will guide the Friday session.
Tan Beta Pi Plans
Initiation of 39
Thirty-nine members will be in
itiated into Tau Beta Pi engi
neering honor society, at 7:30 p.
m. Dec. 14 in the Memorial Stu
dent Center ballroom.
Tau Beta Pi is the highest engi
neering society in the United
States. Scholarship and character
are qualifications for Tau Beta Pi.
The society, founded in 1885,
was established for undergraduates
and alumni in the field of engineer
ing.
The following men have been
selected for membership in the so
ciety: Byron Hubert Anderson,
Hickman Shuts
Out Batt Reporter
Campus Security Chief. Fred
Hickman closed the doors on The
Battalion yesterday at a meeting
of a committee to study the cam
pus traffic problem.
Hickman said that he did not
want the committee’s decisions re
leased until they had been passed
by the president.
The Security chief later told a
Battalion reporter that the com
mittee made no formal recommen
dations. However he said the
committee located the campus ar
eas where traffic problems existed.
ward Gene Battle, Leonard Ray
Birdwell, Wyndham Kenneth
Brinkley, James Enoch Caffey.
Robert Edwin Campbell, Rondal
Garlin Crawford, Billie Frank
Dickard, Billy Ray Dickey, Beirne
Tillotson, Georg’e. Kelley Fling,
Hilliard Otis French, Jack William
Garrett, Harry Nesper Gilland, Al
bert Neal Gist, John Tom Gray,
Donald Brice Hayes.
William Field Herbert, James
Michael Hughes, Tom Lewis Irby,
Samuel Jahn, Eugene Thomas
Lewis, Rollin J. Lord, Philip Dewey
Matthews, George Dan Palmer,
James Max Pinson.
Wilford Clyde Rister, Cooper
Polk Robbins, Anthony Sam Russo,
Edward Earl Sewell, John Herman
Simmonds, Jack Simmons jr.,
James Curtis Trimble, Alfred Pal
mer Williams, Carl Weldon Wil
son jr., Robert Elliott Zumwalt.
Benson Prepares
Sewerage Plans
City Engineer Fred Benson has
drawn up preliminary plans for
proposals to improve the College
Station sewer system.
The three proposals will be pre
sented to the Citizens Advisory
Board on Sewerage Disposal early
in December. The board will then
make recommendations to the City
Council on the plan they think is
most practical.
The proposals will cost between
$250,000 and $320,000.
“The. disposal plant will cost
$150,000. The rest of the money is
for the system,” Benson said.
The most expensive plan would
have a plant out of town and a
complete gravity system for the
sewerline. The other plans would
require pumping and a higher
maintenance cost, Benson said.
impossible to say now what
developments might follow.
Some Republicans and most
Democrats seconded Eisenhower’s
hope, expressed at his news con
ference yesterday, that security
firings may so completely solve
the problem of alleged Red infil
tration of government that the is
sues will be forgotten by next
year’s congx-essional campaign.
Eisenhower said he was not sug
gesting current congressional
probes be called off.
The President declined to com
ment directly on the case of White,
who Atty. Gen. Brownell says was
promoted in 1946 by former Pres
ident Truman in the face of FBI
reports which, Brownell asserted,
tagged White as a Soviet spy.
While Jenner’s subcommittee
planned to go ahead with its hear
ings, the only ones by a congres
sional group thus far in the White
case, the House Un-American Ac
tivities Committee showed signs of
stepping out of the case.
Rep. Clardy (R-Mich.) an
nounced in Lansing, Mich., yester
day that he saw no need now for a
subcommittee to take testimony
from Gov. James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, who was Truman’s
secretary of state at the time of
White’s promotion. Clardy had
been named to head the subcom
mittee.
(See WHITE CASE, page 5)
Gary Named
Freshman
President
James Wallace Gary, one of
A&M’s two winners of the
Carnegie Hero award, was
elected freshman class presi
dent Tuesday in the run-off
election.
Gary received 291 votes to beat
his nearest opponent, W. L. Dan
Winship, 168 votes.
The results of the election were
announced yesterday by Leo Drap
er, election commission chairman.
In the race for vice-president
James E. Goode received 353 votes.
Paul. M. Bass, runner up, had 215
votes.
The narrowest margin recorded
for the election was for the re
cording secretary office. Jack T.
Steel had 63 more votes than Brad
Crockett.
Robert Walter McClesky, jr.,
won the social secretary office with
394 votes. John David Selensky
was second with 260 votes.
Berne Clark, 440 votes, was
elected treasurer over Jon F. Cobb.
All freshman class officers are
in squadron 23 except McClesky,
who is in squadron 21.
Timm Attends
Banking Meet
Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the
agriculture economics and so
ciology department, is attending
the Agriculture Commission Ameri
can Banking association conference
in Chicago this week.
J. Wheeler Barger, of the same
department, is also attending the
conference.
Timm is leading a panel dis
cussion on “Financing the Young
Farmer.”
A&M Men Attend
Agronomy Meet
A&M system personnel are at
tending the 45th annual meeting of
the American Society of Agromony
in Dallas. The meeting ends Fri
day.
C. N. Shepardson, dean of the
School of Agriculture, presided
over the Monday morning session.
R. D. Lewis, director of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station
presided over the Monday after
noon session.
Men Outnumber Women
In Area More Than 6-1
Printers’ President
To Speak at Clinic
H. N. King, typographic consult
ant and president of the Interna
tional Association of Printing
House Craftsmen, will be the
principal speaker at the fifth an
nual Texas Newspaper Clinic and
Mechanical Conference.
Sponsored by the Tejcas Press
association and A&M’s journalism
department, the conference is held
here every year.
The coming conference will be
Feb. 20, 1954, in the Memorial Stu
dent Center. There will be repre
sentatives from approximately 110
Texas newspapers.
Topics to be discussed include
printing machines, work flow,
stereotyping, ad setting, type cast
ing and other press room problems.
AFROTC Seniors
To Evaluate Corps
Corps evaluation is now being
taken up by the senior air science
classes, who are studying problem
solving techniques.
There are 10 sections of air
science 441 classes discussing the
topics of evaluation, said Maj.
Hubert O. Johnston, instructor.
The sections are broken down
into approximately 35 committees.
The topics of the committees are
regulations of the operation of the
corps, physical oi-ganization of the
corps, relationship of corps and
the academic college, uniform of
the corps, traditions, responsi
bilities and priviliges of the corps
and methods, of correcting major
violations.
All findings of the committees
will be sent to corps commander
Fred Mitchell.
A fact that Aggies have realized
for many years was revealed of
ficially recently when the 1950
census figures were released.
Single males in Brazos county
AGC Makes Field
Trip to Houston
The A&M student chaper of the
the American General Contractors
association recently made a field
trip to Houston.
Twenty five members made the
trip with Frank Robinson, arch
itecture instructor, acting as head
of the group.
Gilchrist Portrait
To Be Presented
A portrait of Gibb Gilchrist,
former chancellor, will be present
ed to the college by the board of
directors Thanksgiving day.
Presentation ceremonies will be
in the Texas Engineers Library
building, where the picture will
hang, at 10:30 a. m.
Gov. Allan Shivers will make the
presentation, on behalf of the
board. President David H. Morgan
will accept the gift for the col
lege.
John Moranz, Dallas artist who
painted the protrait, will speak at
the ceremonies.
Judge J. W. Witherspoon of
Hereford, chairman of the board
committee for the portrait, will
preside. The ceremony is open to
the public.
outnumber single females in Brazos
county almost six to one.
Out of a total population of
38,390 persons, there are 6,567
single males and 1,896 single
females in these parts.
In addition to the 1,896 single
women, there are an added 1,670
females who are widowed or di
vorced. No figures were given on
the average age of single women.
Other statistics on Brazos coun
ty include an average per capita
income of $1,340. But more than
60 per cent of .Brazos county’s
citizens earn less than $2,000 a
year.
The majority of Brazos county
residents live in urban areas. Only
32 per cent live in rural areas or
on farms. This average age of
county residents is 24.2 years.
Whites outnumber Negroes 76
per cent to 24 per cent.
Of a total male population of
16,086, 8,884 men are married, 635
are widowed or divorced.
Of a total famale population of
women from 14 years old up, of
12,401, 8,835 are married.
There are 8,570 married couples
in Brazos county. Of these, 8,205
have their own homes: 365 do not.
Bottle
Breakage
Decreases
Breakage of softdrink bot
tles has decreased 31.3 per
cent since this time last year.
A total of 412 cases or 9,888
bottles were broken last year
at A&M. This year 283 cases
have been broken. Dormitory
1 leads in number broken
with 16 cases.
Dormitory 5 is second with
15 cases, and dormitories 4 and
6 are tied for third with 14
cases each. Dormitory 14 and
Milner hall are lowest with
two cases each.
Apartment Housing
Office Sets Move
The college apartment housing
office will be moved from Goodwin
hall to a quonset hut at the south
end of College View.
The quonset hut originally
housed public telephons, laundry
pickup station, and storage of
apartment furniture. Part of the
building is being remedied to
house the office staff, which takes
care of the 456 College View and
60 project housing apartments.
Calvin Moore, of the Housing
Department, said the change will
be more convenient for all patrons.
He said the change will be made
as soon as the building is com
pleted, he thinks it will be before
Christmas.
A notice will be given to all
concerned when the change will go
into effect.
Weather Today
If
MSC Fireplace
To Get First Fire
A fire will be lighted in the
Memorial Student Center lobby
fireplace for the first time Friday
night.
The Odessa Mothers club con
tributed a $300 hand-tooled screen
for the fire place.
The fire place will be used for
the first time at a listening party
conducted by the MSC music com
mittee. The committee will play
semi-classical records on equip
ment provided by the A&M audio
club.
OCCASIONAL RAIN
Rain with thundershowers and
winds today and tonight are ex
pected to hamper work on the bon
fire. A western cold front is ex
pected to hit this area late today
dropping temperatures about 10
degrees. High yesterday 77. Low
this morning 65.