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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Numbei’ 154: Volume 53 PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1953 Published By A&M Students For '75 Years Price rive Cents Extension Service Agent Is Texas 9 Woman of the Year Mrs. Grace M. Martin, assistant district agent in the Agricultural Extension service, has been named “Texas Woman of the Year for 1953”. The award is made by Progres sive Fai’mer magazine to honor service to the farm families of the state. Mrs. Martin is the widow of O. B. Martin, who was at one time director of the Extension service of the Southern States. She has always been interested in rural progress and has made helping farm families her life’s work. She was a home demonstra tion agent in Mississippi from 1917 until 1924. Mi's. Martin served in Puerto Rico two years, where she organiz ed and trained home demonstration woikers. From 1937 until the pre sent she has worked with the Agri cultural Extension service. Mrs. Martin is a life board mem ber in the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs. She has also received a diamond pin, designating 25 years service in the Extension Service Club. She was chosen by the Alpha Zeta chapter, Epsilon Sigma Phi, to re ceive the National Recognition award. She is a member of the National Defense Advisory committee for recruiting women in the armed services. When Texas celebrated its 50th anniversary of extension service News Briefs Locker Plant Processes 97 Slim Deer NINTY-SEVEN deer have been processed by the animal husbandry iocker plant this year, according to H. W. Cargill. “The deer this year are not as fat as they were last year,” he said. ROTTED and half-dead trees be hind Hart hall have been removed to give more recreation space. The trees were cut down during the Thanksgiving holidays. * * * C. H. BATES, farm management specialist for the Agricultural Ex tension service, will attend a South-wide meeting of extension farm management workers Friday and Saturday in Alanta, Ga. * * * THE FUTURE FARMERS of America here will give a plaque at the end of the semester to their outstanding senior graduate. He will be chosen oil leadership, FFA activities and personality. ■ % * ABOUT 30 agronomy 417 stu dents will make a field trip to South Texas Thursday and Friday. They will visit the Ruling founda tion, Pat Higgins grass seed farm j:t Southerland and the Beeville experiment station. * * * THE SOUTHSIDE Food Market will be local headquarters for the Mrs. America contest. Applications for the contest can be turned in at the grocery. * * * A FIRST SOLO flight was made recently by naval avaition cadet Paul Boozman of Argyle. Boozman attended A&M before entering the naval aviation program. * * * ONLY SPECIAL sizes of shoes been received by the armory. No new orders are expected to be fill ed for sometime, said B. W. Hearne, military property custo dian. Ag Fraternity Sets Initiation Dec. 14 A&M’s chapter of Alpha Zeta, national agricultural honor frater nity, will initiate 38 new members Dec. 14 in the assembly room of the Memoi-ial Student Center. A student must be within the upper two-fifths of his class, par ticipate in extra curricular school activities and show exceptional abilities in leadership to become a member, said Roger Q. Landers, fraternity chancellor. Faculty members who are pre sent fraternity members will initi ate the agi'icultural students. this year, Mrs. Martin was chair man of the program committee. On April 1, 1952, Governor Shivers appointed Mi’s. Martin as state coordinator of women’s activities in civil defense and disas ter i-elief. Mi's. Martin heads the Advisory Council of Cicil Defense for Wo men’s Activities, representing more than one million women. These women work to insure preparedness at home in event of wartime of natural disaster. Debate ream To Meet Baylor Here The A&M debating team will meet the Baylor Univer sity debaters here at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the senate cham ber of the Memorial Student Center. This is an exchange practice de bate and the A&M team will go to Baylor at a later date. Topic for debate will be “Resolved United States should adopt a free trade policy”.' Members of the varsity debating team are Ken Scott and John Samuels. The discussion team from Baylor will meet A&M discussion team at 3 p. m. the same day. The topic for discussion will be “Methods of im proving congressional investiga tions.” Members of the discussion team are John Chapman, Richard Black and George Morris. Dec. 11 is the date for the open ing of the annual Texas A&M De bating tournament. Twenty - one colleges and universities will enter teams in this event. A&M will have four varsity de bating teams entered in the com petition. The debating teams have no activities scheduled for the Christ mas holidays. Mitchell Wins In Seal Design David L. Mitchell of Albuquer que, N.M., won the architecture, department’s contest to design a seal for the city of College Station. Willard C. Sholar of Shreveport, La., designed the winning letter head in the contest. Both winners are fifth year architecture students. The two designs will be combined by Ernest Langford, head of the architecture department and mayor of College Station. They will be submitted at the next city council meeting for ap proval. All contest entries will be posted on the bulletin board in Gushing memorial library. ..... Mrs. Grace M. Martin Texas Woman of the Year The A, A. Jakkula Resea rch Yessel Wilt Be Renamed Store Thief Steals Headache Medicine PICKENS, S. C. CP) — A thief who broke into Jess Christopher’s store here recently plans to suffer no headaches from his deed—his loot included a carton of aspirin tablets and two cases of headache powders. The A&M research foundation’s ship, The Atlantic, will be re christened The A.A. Jakkula at ceremonies in Galveston at 11:30 a. m. Saturday. The ceremonies will be at the 20th St. Piei\ Dr. Jakkula, for whom the ship will be re-christened, was the exe cutive director of the foundation from 1946 to 1953. He died May 30. His widow, Mrs. Myrta Jakkula of Bryan, will christen the ship. Guests for the ceremonies will be members of the Texas Academy of Science, which meets in Galves ton December 4-5. After the christening members of the Acade my will be taken on a short cruise. Gibb Gilchrist, former chancellor, and Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of engineering and director of the Foundation, will give talks at the ceremonies. The ship was given to the re search foundation by Milwaukee industralists RobeiT A. and Erwin C. Uihlein, to be used for research purposes by the oceanography de partment. Galveston was selected as her home port. Originally a pleasure yacht on the Great Lakes, the ship was call ed the “Moby Dick.” In 1942 her superstructure was altered, guns were mounted on the deck and she went into submarine detection duty between New Orleans and Trinidad under the name “Blanco.” Her service chevrons are still display ed. In 1948 she was refitted and re turned to the Uihlein brothers, who again altered the superstructure and some of her lines for yachting, and her name was changed to “Alantic”. Now she has been converted for scientific research, with additional winches mounted, and her forward superstructure converted into lab oratories. An electronics laboratory is being installed and other modi fications are planned. In her new capacity she will bear the name of the man who was a strong figure in helping to or ganize the Research Foundation along its present lines, and who played a major role in setting up the oceanography department here. She will become the “R/V (Re search Vessel) A. A. Jakkula.” Fall Commissioning To Be Held Jan. 16 Commissioning exercises for fall semester graduates will be held Jan. 16, at 10 a. m. in Guion Hall. Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T, will present Army commissions. Col. John A. Way, PAS&T will A AAA. Compiling Book On Company's Activities Members of A anti-aircraft artil lery are compiling a booklet con taining the history and activities of A&M’s anti-aircraft artillery battalion. The second of its type at A&M the booklet contains the names of past and present members and their whereabouts and the achieve ments of this year’s battery. Facts about AAA instructors, names of children born to AAA families, scores of 1953 A&M foot ball games and other information are also in the book. Maj. James W. Davis, senior AAA instructor, is credited with developing the publication at A&M, said Ed Keeling, AAA commander. Davis said it had been a custom at every school with which he has been associated to have a publi cation of this type. He thought the booklet was a good idea, and en couraged its development. The booklet is expected to be in the mail before the Christmas holidays, Keeling said. It will be sent to past and present AAA members throughout the world. AF Seniors Must Sign Applications Graduating air force ROTC sen iors who want to take flight train ing must sign an application for training or a statement of intent before 5 p. m. Dec. 10. The applications may be signed in the office of Capt. Jack Hoff man, air force adjutant. The applications will be sent to Air University headquarters so the air force can make a tentative as signment of classes, according to Maj. H. O. Johnson. award Airforce commissions. David H. Morgan, president, will- be the principal speaker at the exercises. Dr. Walter H. Delaplane, chair man of the graduation commence ment exercise committee, was not available for comment as to whether a graduating exercise would be held. H. L. Heaton, registrar, a mem ber of this committee, did not think that graduation exercises would be held, because a lack of interest shown by previous Janu ary graduates. If a majority of the graduating students want to have an exercise, it is possible to have one with the approval of the commencement committee. Historic Hat Dumped; Belonged to Pres. Taft PROVINCETOWN, Mass. <A>) _ Anthony R. Francis left a batter ed silk hat on a business office ticket desk and a clerk consigned it to the dump. Francis retrieved it after much dump-picking. He says it one belonged to the late President William Howard Taft and he has worn it until it has become known to Francis’ friends as his private trademark. Clear in Area 4 g rri i t/~ ® 11 rfi Alter 1 ornadoKills 1 wo Ends Night Skies cleared over the tornado area this morning' in southeast Texas and the danger of storms in the College Station vicinity was eliminated. Residents of College Station and Bryan were at their radios last nig’ht expecting a warning of the storm in the immediate area, but none came. Radio station KORA in Bryan issued reports early Wed nesday night that there was no danger, and about 10 p.m. last night, the station announced the “all clear signal.” At least six tornadoes dipped their churning tentacles in South Central and East Texas Wednesday. Two persons were killed. *. Dan ger Period Late Wednesday Center Plans Decorations Party Friday The Memorial Student Cen ter will have a decorations party at 7:30 Friday night. Anybody that wants to is invited to come help decorate the Center for Christmas, said Rodney Heath, house commit tee chairman. The group will put up Christmas trees, wreaths, win dow ornaments, and other kinds of decorations. The Center will supply the decorations, and refreshments will be served. Science Group To Hear Aggies Five A&M students will speak at the 17th annual Collegiate Academy of Science convention. A joint meeting of the Texas Academy of Science and the col legiate academy, the convention will be held Friday and Saturday at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston. Thirty colleges throughout Texas will be represented at the meeting, said Richard Hensz, collegiate academy pi’esident. A&M students speaking at the convention will be Terrell Hamil ton, Dial M. Dunkin, Arthur Herzog, John E. Oliver and Hensz. The convention’s theme is “Team work in Science.” Dr. Charles LaMotte, collegiate cotnmittee member, and other staff members will accompany the stu dents, Hensz said. A&M ranks seventh among the 22 land grant colleges in the num ber of freshmen enrolling this year. Figures presented at the annual meeting of the Land Grant Col lege association show that 1,758 freshmen enrolled here in Septem ber. This is 211 more freshmen than entered A&M at the same time last year. Freshmen enrollment for 1952 totaled 1,547. Land Grant This year only six land grant schools topped A&M’s number of freshmen students. They were Penn State, 3,623, Michigan State, 3,262, Purdue, 2,511, Oklahoma A&M, 2,300, Iowa State, 2,041, and Cornell 2,014. However three of these colleges had a drop in freshmen enrollment under last year’s fall semester. They were Purdue, 650, Iowa State, 373, Oklahoma A&M, 515. New Mexico A&M had the low est number of freshmen this year with 489. In total enrollment for 1953 A&M ranked eighth with 6,153 stvidents. This is a drop of 124 under last years fall enrollment when the total was 6,277. Land Grant Colleges whose to- Corps to Drill Extra Half Hour The cadet corps will drill today an extra half hour after the re gular drill period. The extra period is to make up for the drill period missed Thurs day, Nov. 19, because of the build ing on the bonfire, according to military officials. The remaining half hour miss ed then is expected to be made up at some later date this year. TV Antenna Plans Go To Officials for Okay Plans for the television antenna to be placed on top the new physi cal education building will be sub mitted to college officials for ap proval. The antenna will serve the Col lege Station area, said J. Wayne Stark, MSC directorate. Final count of money in the Memorial Student Center television fund has not been taken, he said. Dairymen Discuss Business Problems All phases of the dairy business will be tken up at the Dairyman’s short course to be held here Thurs day and Friday. Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Agriculture will give the welcome address. Speakers include J. L. Reeves, Springfield, Mo.; B. E. Stallones, Houston; H. L. Peterson, Austin; S. E. Carpenter, Tyler; Karl Mus- ser, Peterboro, N. H.; E. W. Hamil ton, La Porte, Ind.; Ed Knolle, Sandia; Sam E. von Rosenberg, Austin. Staff members who will give talks are R. B. Halpin, F. R. Jones, R. E. Leighton, N. M. Randolph, Dr. H. Schmidt, Dr. I. W. Rupel, E. M. Trew and R. E. Burleson. The short course is sponsored by the department of dairy husbandry, with A. L. Darnell in charge of ar rangements. Sessions will be held in the Memorial Student Center with an expected attendance of 135. tal enrollment outnumbered A&M’s are Michigan State, 14,779, Penn State, 12,753, Purdue, 10,956, Cor nell, 9,740, Oklahoma A&M, 8,617, Iowa State, 7,780, and Alabama Polytechnic, 6,750. The enrollment of three of these colleges had dropped below last year’s. They were Cornell, 131, Oklahoma A&M, 341, Penn. State, 62. New Mexico A&M also had the lowest total enrollment for 1953 with 1,772 students. Students may hold any one of four selective service classifications while they are enrolled in school. Three of these are deferments. The Bryan Selective Service board, local board 13, recently ex plained the requirements for the different draft classifications. They are as follows: The I-D classification covers corps juniors and seniors who have military contracts, as long as thei/ contracts are good. Weather Today CLEAR Clear and cool today and tomor row. High yesterday 75. Low this morning 52. All occurred before night fall. The Weather Bureau warned more tornadoes could occur between 7 and 10 p.m. Wednesday night but t h e danger period expired with none reported. Heavy rain, vivid electrical storms and high winds occurred, however, as a cold front swept to ward the Gulf. The tornadoes formed ahead of the front. At 10 p.m. heavy rain was fall ing on a line from the Dallas-Fortv Worth area all the way to Houston, Points reporting more than an inch of rain included Galveston, Lufkin and Texarkana. Up to 5 inches fell in Central Texas Tuesday night and early Wednesday. Woman, Grandson Die A 65-year-old woman and her in fant grandson were killed when a tornado sucked up a four-room farm tenant house near historic Washington-on-the-Brazos, about 30 miles south of College Station. The house, with seven members of a Negro family inside, was car ried 54 yards and dashed to the ground. The five others inside were hurt. The other tornadoes were near Hearne, Lufkin, Seguin, Tangle- wood and Huntsville. There was an unconfirmed report of a tornado near North Zulch, a village west of Madisonville. Recital Series Begin s Frid ay Gaetano Molieri, first violist of' the Houston symphony, and Al bert Hirsh, Houston pianist and educator, will present the first program of the year for the Me morial Student Center Recital series Friday. The program will be at 8 p. m. in the MSC assembly room. It is open to the public without charge. The recital series is sponsored by a group of local citizens. The II-S deferment includes all students enrolled in college, other than those under the I-D classi fication. Graduate students not in the top one-half of their class and who did not make 75 on the selective service test; seniors who are not in the top three-fourths of their class or made less than 70 on the test; juniors not in the top two- thirds of their class or who made less than 70 on the test are not eligible for the II-S classification. Sophomores who are not in the top one-half of their class or who did not make 70 on the test are also ineligible. Students not covered by either the I-D or II-S deferment hold a I-A or IIS (C) classification. The I-S(C) is a probationary defer ment. Freshmen who are classified I-A will remain in this catagory until they have completed their first year. If at that time they meet the qualifications then they will be given a II-S deferment. If a student has been classified as II-S but falls below the quali fications for this classification, they will be given a II-S(C) pro bationary deferment. They will keep this classification until the end of the academic year at which time they will either become eligible for class 11-8 or for induc tion into the army. The Bryan selective service board is located in room 310 of the Varisco building. Wish' Enrollment Numbers Seventh Three Deferments Open to Students