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B. CC :gb « -n p U T V X SX V • c ox*xj use, F E ^ COPIES Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents i on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY US THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 152: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1953 Price Five Cents Board of Directors Abolishes Tarleton High School The A&M system board of direc tors has decided to abolish the high school division of Tarleton state college. Board members voted the action in their meeting here Wednesday. They heard a report which included the information that this year’s high school enrollment at Tarleton was 23 students. The board also urged the comp troller to study a method of fi nancing through revenue bonds the construction of additional buildings at Prairie View A&M college. Prairie View reported a need for 1 80 rooms for girls, 90 rooms for boys, a faculty and staff dorm, an exchange store and guest house! Board members urged the further study of financing the construction of these buildings through revenue bonds with “utmost dispatch.” Distribution of $30,007.91 in Ex change store profits for 1952-h3 re ceived approval at the meeting. The distribution was $20,000 to the Memorial Student Center, $7,500 to intramural athletics, $1,350 to the band awards and trips account and $1,157.91 retained for operating capital. The board revised the procedure for sale of oil and gas leases on property owned by the system. The period between the time an affirmed bid is received and the public auction is held was short ened by about four months to two months. The bond on military property at Prairie View was increased from $100,000 to $125,000. The board authorized a livestock revolving fund of $50,000 for use by the Agricultural Experiment (station in buying livestock for ex periments. The legislature orig inally granted $15,000 for this pur pose, so the two sums will give the experiment station $65,000. Lease Accepted An oil and gas lease bid was ac cepted from W. C. Proctor of Dal las. The oil, gas and sulphur lease was on 320 acres of system land in Cherokee county for a $5 bonus and one sixth royalty. Proctor also guaranteed to start a well on the land within 90 days or forfeit the lease. Board members requested a re study of the remodeling of DeWare field house. They voted to inves tigate the possibility of adding to the new , gymnasium -the things which were to' be built into the re modeled field house, y If the field house is remodeled, the baseball team’s dressing rooms will be: remqved. Therefore, the board authorized $36,000 for the team’s dressing rooms under the Kest side of Kyle Field if DeWare /s • remodeled. The board authorized the comp troller to take bids on a new-sew erage treatment laboratory for .ex perimental purposes. Arlington received $2,400 for outside lighting at the student cen ter there. Prairie View received $2500 for fencing around its poultry area. Boa r d members authoi-ized $25,000 for miscellaneous improve ments at Prairie View for streets, gutters, sidewalks and other phy sical plant items. Prairie View also got $14,000 from the board to match $14,000 received from the state legislature for repairs and improvements on the hospital building there. The system’s authorization was for the service aspect of the work, and the legislature’s appropriation was for the training part of the hospital. The board also authorized Prai rie View to take bids on a water well and roof and masonry repairs to several buildings there. Tarleton college was authorized $11,000 to air condition the lecture room of its agriculture building. The board also authorized $12,000 to Tarleton for parking lots and $12,000 for home economics and physical education improve ments and equipment in class rooms. , Board members voted to cancel the reservation of $275,000 of A&M-University of Texas available funds for proposed railroad relo cation. Underpass Wanted The plan was to aid the rail roads with this amount if they would build an underpass at the west gate where the road by the railroad station crosses the tracks. The railroads did not respond. Board members viewed color slides of the Agricultural Experi ment station’s work at the various stations over the state. It was part of an orientation program to acquaint the board with the sta tions’ functions. Dr. Rex Johnson, assistant di rector of the experiment station, discussed the slides. The board suggested that copies of the series of slides be made available for showing throughout the state upon request. System For improving Corps Grades WHILE 10,000 WATCHED—An estimated 10,000 persons were on hand Wednesday night for the burning’ of the 1953 Aggie bonfire on the main drill field. Flames still rose from the remains of the fire as late as Friday evening. Ch esl Lacks $2? 500; Drive Ends Dec. 5 The A&M College-College Sta tion Community Chest - Red Cimss dinve, which closes Saturday, is about $2,500 short of its $13,070 goal. Thirty departments of the col lege have reported contributions to the A&M College-College Station Community Chest-Red Cross from 90 per cent or more of their staffs. Two departments contributed al most 90 per cent, said Fred J. Ben son, chairnian of the drive. “These departments should be commended for their gifts to the drive,” Benson said. Depaitments contributing 90 per cent or more were offices of the chancellor, president, dean of the News Briefs Air Force Applications For Non-Regs Due Non-Military students planning to apply for air force contracts next semester or the fall semester of 1954 must file applications to day. Applications should be made to Capt. Jack Hoffman in room 201 of the Military Science building, said Maj. Luther Westbrook, director of training. Weather Today COMPANY SIGNS must be re moved fromathe drill field |>y 6 p. m. today, saifC§Lt. Col. Tayfbr Wil kins, assistanFcbni'ihandant; or the signs will be destroyed by the B&CU department. Signs may be stored in the basement of Dorm 3 for use next ygar. * V , DAN RUSSELL, head of the agriculture Economics and rural sociology department, spoke yes terday to the-College Station Lions club on his recent trip to Europe. Russell showed slides of color pictures he had taken while in Germany. * * * MSC RECITAL SERIES begins Friday with a concert by Gaetano Molieri, principal violist of the Houston Symphony and Albert Hirsch, Houston pianist. No change will be made for the concert, the first in a series sponsored by the Memorial Student Center music committee. :«« :}: * THE SCHOOL OF agriculture will sponsor the third annual Texas Farm and Ranch Credit School for Commercial Bankers Dec. 6 through Dec. 9 in the MSC. Agri cultural trends in 1954 will be the main discussion topic for the first session of the course. 5jt * * DR. RAYMOND REISER of the depaxtment of biochemistry and nutrition, was elected recently secretary-treasurer of the south west section of the Society for,Ex perimental Biology and Medicine, a national organization. His term of office will be two years. * * * ALL STUDENTS ATTENDING school under the Korean G. I. bill are reminded they must report to the Veterans Advisor office, 102 Goodwin hall and sign the monthly certification for November, said Bennie Zinn, veterans advisor. * * * ANYONE still having corps axes and files used on the bon fire is asked to tuim them into Wayne Findley, room 208, dormi tory 7. The corps is responsible for the tools, and they are to be used next year, Findley said. ijc :y. * *8, WILLIAM P. CHAMLEE was recently graduated from tile engineer officer basic course at Fort Belvoir, Va. He received a de gree in:,architecture and his second lieutenant’s commission here. - * * * JUNTO will meet tonight at 7:30 in room 3D, MSC. Charlie Parker will lead a discussion on “An Evaluation of the Eisenhower Ad ministration”. * * * BLOOD DONOR certificates for the recent blood drive will be sent out Thursday, said Bill Reed chair man of the drive. The blood group and RH factors are now being typed. MEMBERS of the industrial education seminar class will make field trip to the Houston area Dec. 3, 4 and 5 to visit industries and schools. college, dean of engineering, agri- culture and arts and sciences. Basic division, journalism de partment, Rural Home Research, Texas Engineers library, Cushing library, Campus Cleaners, subsis tence department, I’ange and fore stry department, agricultural engi neering, Texas Forest service. Comptrollers office, agricultural and engineering experiment sta tion, Feed Control service, industri al education department, history department, physics department, civil engineering department, elec trical engineering department, architecture department, English department, geography, air science department, aeronautical engineer ing department. Clark Attends Odessa College; Won’t Return John Clark told The Bat talion last night that he had enrolled in Odessa college and would not return to A&M. A number of students pack ed Clark’s belongings Nov. 19 and persuaded him to leave A&M. The incident occurred after Clark had written a letter to The Battalion criticizing Aggie traditions. Clark, who was a non-military junior here, said that he enrolled in the two-year Odessa school last Tuesday. He said he still planned to enter The University of Okla homa, probably next fall. Clark said that OU would only accept 60 of his scholastic hours. He said he already had 60 hours when school started in September. Clark said he would probably lose a year’s school work when he transferred. Clark had said in his letter to The Battalion that he would go to OU if students here would pay his tuition. CLOUDY Cloudy today and tomorrow with possible light showers tomorrow. High yesterday 69. Low this morn ing 56. Aggieland Combo Plays MSC Dance A large turnout is expected for the Memorial Student Center Dance class Christmas Formal tonight The Aggieland Combo will play for the dance which lasts from 8 to 11 p. m. It is open to-students enrolled in the 1953 fall dance class only. Film Club to Show ‘Man Hunt’ Tomorrow The A&M Film Society will pre sent “Man Hunt” tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Ag Student Edits AFEA Publication Andrew C. Hudson, senior agri cultural economics major from Al pine, has just completed the first Isfue of Newsletter, the official publication of the studept section of the American Farm Economic association. Hudson was elected editor at the association’s annual meeting held in August at Oregon State college. Newsletter, published t h r e e times yeaily, contains up-to-date news and views on all phases of agricultural economics, as well as club news from the 31 member col leges throughout the United States. Agricultural economics students are urged to attend the meeting of the Agricultural Economics club on Dec. 8, where they will re ceive their copy of Newsletter, Hudson said. Football Fan Loses $120 Before Game Galveston man lost $60 to a pickpocket in the Memorial Student Center just before the University of Texas game last Thursday. The wallet contained valu able papers and he thought he had $50 in a secret compart ment also. The pickpocket got the wal let from a buttoned pocket under a suit coat. The man discovered the loss of his billfold as he was try ing to buy a ticket to the ball game. Luckily, he had six one dollar bills in front pocket. The wallet may be found if the thieves take the money and discard the billfold, said Morris Maddox, campus se curity officer who handled the complaint. The victim’s name was with held. MSC Auction Makes $213 for TV Fund The Memorial Student Center’s lost and found auction Wednesday made $213 for the center television fund. Articles sold included' a wrist watch, radio, linen, towels, hats and books. Most of the articles were found in the guest rooms. Outfit Pictures Now Beino Taken Upperclassmen outfit pictures are now being taken at the System Administration building. B armor and A field artillery will have their pictures made Dec. 2, followed by field artillery and A coast artillery. Pictures of the freshmen units, the bands, A infantry, B infantry, and A armor have ah’eady been made. The uniform for the pictures will be blouses, garrison caps, green ties for juniors and seniors and boots. Plan To Be Carried Out By Scholastic Officers A program was started last night to improve the grades of A&M upperclassmen military students. Entirely a student undertaking, the program calls for corps scholastic officers to keep reports on cadet upperclass men having trouble with their school work. Only upperclassmen are included in the program, said Carroll Phillips, corps scholastic officer. The Basic Division has a separate program. Cadet athletes are presently ex cluded from the program, but will be included soon he said. Day students are not included in the plan. Phillips explained the plan last night at a meeting of scholastic officers and dormitory counselors. Dean John R. Bertrand and C. H. Ransdell of the Basic Division, Corps commander Fred Mitchell, and Corps Deputy Command er Kert Goode also were pres ent. Scheduled to be in full op eration by the end of the week, the program consists of four re ports and an oath to be signed by cadets on academic probation. Upperclassmen signing the oath aim required to: ® Report their academic pro gress to their scholastic sergeant and/or scholastic officer, including test results in all subjects. ® Report to the scholastic offi cer when in danger of failing any subject. ® Attend all classes except when properly excused. • Have the scholastic officer or sergeant sign all passes before pre senting th.em to the dormitory counselor for approval. ® Accept any and all sugges tions made by the scholastic offi cer and scholastic sergeant of their unit in the interest of impi-oving their academic standing. •Agree to attend any and all help sessions' set up for any sub ject which: they .a^ failing. Phillips said he did not know what would be done to an upper classmen on probation who refused to sign the oath. “I’d say a sophomore oi 1 junior would sign it,” he said. Although reports are to be sub mitted to dormitory counselors, the plan is entirely a student pro gram and dormitory counselors will serve only as guides, he said. Form Required Each student is required also to fill out a form containing the course, grades on major and mi nor quizzes, semester grades, num ber of hours passed and number of grade points made for nine weeks and semester periods. Sophomores Will place this form under their door cards, Phillips said. Juniors will place them on their bulletin boards, and seniors can do what they choose with them. “This form should be kept in a unit’s file for at least one semes ter,” Phillips said. “Students can then use the information to deter mine whom they should see about specific courses.” The other reports are a scholas tic probation recoi'd of each indi vidual, an unsatisfactory progress report of each group or regiment, and a list of names of students failing specific courses to be sub mitted each month to each group or battalion scholastic officer. “Scholastic officers will have a lot of work to do in order to carry out the program,” Phillips said, “but it is work we can do a lot with.” The purpose of the reports is to make cadets self-conscious of their grades,” Phillips said. “If a per son is self-conscious about his Begin Laughton Show Tickets to Charles Laugh ton’s Town Hall performance will be distributed outside dining halls following evening* meals this week. Laughton will put on two shows!; at 7 and 9 p.m. in Guion Hall Mon day, Dec. 7. The special performance tickets are free to Town Hall season ticket holders, said C. G. (Spike) White, student activities manager. T h e tickets are also available at Stu dent Activities office. Individual performance tickets are available for $.2 at Student Ac tivities office for those who did not purchase a Town Hall season ticket, White said. The reason for having two shows, White said, is that Town Hall was designed for the new Physical Ed ucation building. Since that building has not yet been complet ed, Town Hall must be held in Guion hall. White urged each student to get his ticket to the Laughton show in order to keep from “missing out on this fine entertainment.” Ninety-three per cent of the stu dents have season Town Hall tick ets, White said. grades, work.” Corps Gets Bill For ‘Float Outs’ A bill for $101.88 has been pre sented to Fred Mitchell, cadet corps commander, for “float outs” to dormitories 1, 7, 9 and 12. The $101.88 bill is for the re placement of missing flush valves and for labor to the building and utilities department for installing the new flush valves. A bill for $180 was recently paid by the cadet corps for “float outs.” The $180 bill was also for new flush valves and labor to install them. The $180 was raised in the corps by an assessment to each out fit, Mitchell said. “We hope to someway reduce the amount of this second bill,” said Mitchell. “I hope for cooperation in the corps to stop these “float outs,” because it is costing th6 corps itself,” he said. BEAUTIFICATION CONTINUES—As this scene in front of the Academic building shows, the main concrete slab and part of the new sidewalk system have been laid. Remaining work includes completion of the sidewalks, leveling and filling of the soil in the area and landscaping. he will try to do better Aid Help Sessions The reports also will serve in helping to obtain help sessions, he said. The number of students want ing help sessions will be entered on the reports. When a sufficient number has requested help, a professor is then asked to hold a help session. The program is expected to eliminate the problem of having a professor give up his evening with his fam ily to hold a help session, and then find only a few of the students who said they would come, pres ent. “The idea of the program is to help Aggies and not tie up people with i’ed tape,” Mitchell said. “Go at it with this attitude and pro fessors will be glad to hold help sessions.” Bertrand said he thought the program was a good idea. “I wish to commend everyone working on this program for the work being done,” he said. Aggie Talent Show Planned Dec. 11 The Memorial Student Center committee will present the second annual Aggie Talent show Friday, Dec. 11, at 7:45 p. m. in the MSC ballroom. Jim Harrison, western folk sing er and last year’s winner, wall headline the show which features magicians, vocalists, western bands and pianists. Performer's other than Harrisom Will be Dean Duncan and Jerry Schnepp, magicians; Dormitory 16 Playboys, western band; Ronnie Bretz, singer (popular songs); Ag gie Ramblers, western band; Dean Smith, piano; Charles Willis, piano and vocal; Tommy Short, popular guitar; Jerry Dunn, western band, and Florencio Doromal, singer. A surprise attraction will be in cluded in the show. This attraction will not be announced until Dec. 9. This music committee, headed by chairman Bob King, will pick two winners from this group to re present A&M in the Intercollegiate Talent show, which will be held in Guion Hall, March 19. —,