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Number 155: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas,FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1953
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Senate
Erection of Ligh ts
In Parking Areas
The student senate last night
recommended that flood lights be
erected in campus parking lots to
discourage petty thieves and gas
siphoners.
In other new business, the sena
tors referred action to the student
life committee on the qualifications
for selecting Battalion editors.
When asked by Ide Trotter, pres
ident of the senate, why the item
was included on the agenda, Denny
Cole said it was brought up by
Pehrlin (Sonny) Tutt. Cole is a
member of the executive corrrmit-
tee of the senate which prepares
the agenda.
Tutt said some students had told
him that it would be better to give
more persons a chance in elections
for Battalion editors.
Committee reports dominated
last night’s meeting.
A report from the welcoming
committee was given by C. E.
(Chuck) Fenner for V. M. Mont
gomery, who was absent.
In recent action, the committee
met with SMU and University of
Texas students. In a summary of
their fall activities, the report said
the committee felt it had done its
job “to the best of our abilities.”
Seymour Smith gave a short re
port from the hospital committee
*nd suggested that senators relate
to him any complaints about the
hospital.
A report from the TTSA com
mittee was given by Frank Ford.
The senate has received informa
tion from Lamar College request
ing A&M enter a cooperative book
ing arrangement for name bands
and other talent.
The senate passed a motion to
see what could be done to make
this possible.
Under special committees, Buddy
Vance told the senate the traffic
committee had met with chief of
campus security Fred Hickman
and that plans had been discussed
to enlarge parking facilities at
A&M.
Vance said Hickman told him
Milner and Hart halls have the
worst parking problems at A&M.
The traffic committee meets with
Rickman again Tuesday evening.
Larry Hoffman told the senate
the welcoming committee needed
More funds to provide for the
Burglar Licks Lockout
CROWNSVILLE, Md. (A>)—Jor
dan Dorsey thought he had the
burglar problem licked by remov
ing the front doorknob and hid
ing it nearby every time he left
the house. An intruder found the
knob and let himself in. The loot?
One can of beans, eaten on the
premises.
feeding of visiting delegates from
other schools. '
One senator said a possible solu
tion might be to feed them in the
college dining halls. Hoffman said
that wouldn’t quite be considered
a banquet.
No legal action can be taken by
the senate in recent paintings of
A&M students in Austin, said C. D.
(Buddy) Foxworth, head of a com
mittee to investigate the incident.
However, he said, reports of the
committee will be sent to A&M
former students in Austin in hopes
that they can do something about
the situation.
(See SENATE, Page 2)
PE Majors
Teach at CHS
For Experience
Nine A&M physical educa
tion majors are gaining teach
ing experience by conducting
PE classes for boys and girls
at A&M Consolidated high
school.
Each student teaches two classes
a day Monday thi’ough Friday.
The course in practice teaching
must be completed by physical
education majors before they can
receive their degi’ees. Upon com-
pleteion of the teaching course, the
students are eligible to receive a
physical education teaching certi
ficate.
A&M students teaching at CHS
are under the supervision of Jim
Bevans, athletic coach and head of
the physical education department
there.
Practice teaching also requires
that the physical education majors
prepare lesson plans and do other
administrative work.
The program is designed to give
high school boys and girls a more
rounded preparation in physical
education, said Dr. Carl Landiss of
A&M’s physical education depart
ment.
Some of the activities the high
school boys participate in under the
supervision of the practice teach
ers are touch football, rhythms,
speedball, health education, tumbl
ing and softball.
Girls are supervised in volley
ball, golf, rhythms, health edu
cation and softball.
The nine A&M students teaching
at CHS are John Centilli, James
Prewit, Calvin Janak, Richard
Ross, Roscoe Hunt, Bob Pate, Ed
ward Castillo, Gene Stephens and
Johnny Cooley.
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KEEP OFF THE GRASS—College employes dig holes to
put up posts north of the temporary classrooms area to
keep cars from parking on the grass. Seven of the tem
porary buildings, known as “the shacks”, are being paint
ed. The other three were painted last summer.
Last AF ROTC Tests
Set for This Weekend
Sophs and Some Juniors
Will Take Tests
By BILL ROBINSON
Battalion Staff Writer
The last air force ROTC pilot and observer stanine tests
will be given Saturday and Sunday to air force sophomores
and second semester juniors.
The observer portion of the test will begin at 1 p.m. Sat
urday. The biographical test will be at 3:45 p.m. Saturday.
The pilot part of the test will be at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Juniors or seniors who have not taken part of the test
will take the part they missed at the scheduled time.
Seniors will take the test in the Biological Sciences lec
ture room. Juniors will be tested in the chemistry lecture
room. Sophomores will be divided between the two groups.
In the future all air force juniors and seniors who want
pilot or observer training will +
have to take these tests, said
Capt. J. N. Hoffman, air force
adjutant.
“The tests determine an ap
titude for flying and observer
training and do not reflect the
general aptitude of a student,”
Hoffman said.
Of the 210 seniors who have
completed the tests, nine, or four
per cent, made a perfect score of
nine.
Eight per cent made eight, nine
per cent made seven, 10 per cent
made six, 33 per cent made five,
16 per cent made four, 19 per cent
three, and one per cent made be
low three.
“No definite policy has been
established as to how or if, the
(See AF TESTS, Page 2)
Rodeo Team Goes
To Lake Charles
The Aggie Rodeo Team will
participate in an intercollegiate
rodeo in Lake Charles, La., today
and tomorrow sponsored by Mc-
Neese State College.
The rodeo will be held in the
city’s indoor coliseum.
Members of the team making
the trip and the events each will
enter are follows: Bobby Rankin,
dogging and bai*eback bronc rid
ing, Lowie Rice, dogging and calf
roping; James Dickey, bareback
bronc riding and saddle bronc rid
ing; G. A. Burleson, bareback bronc
riding, bull riding, and dogging; R.
S. Higgins, bareback bronc riding
and bull riding; Kenneth Beasley,
bull riding and bareback bronc rid
ing.
Veigel Patrick was also schedul
ed to make the tidp, but he suffered
a broken ankle during the Thanks
giving holidays and will not be
able to attend.
Stolen Aggie Ring Returned
After Turning Up in Korea
An A&M senior ring, stolen more
than a year ago, was returned to
its owner on Thanksgiving day
after it was found in Korea beside
two dead Chinese soldiers.
Bill Robinson, Battalion staff
writer and A&M senior, returned
the ring to J. N. Parks ’45 after
the A&M Texas game here.
Someone had stolen Park’s ring
on Sept. 2, 1952. It had been taken
from the glove compartment of his
car while he was fishing near San
A ntonio.
Weather Today
CLEAR
No important changes are fore
cast in area weather. The high
yesterday was 71. Low last night
42, High today 72,
Robinson received the ring from
Otto Yelton ’50 who found it while
serving with the third quarter
master company in Korea.
Noticed Something
One day while in Korea’s Chor-
wan Valley, Yelton noticed some
thing sparkling between two dead
Chinese soldiers. Moving one of the
bodies, he picked up the object.
It was an A&M senior ring with
the name of J. N. Parks inscribed
on the inside of the band. Yelton
kept the ring. The following sum
mer he complete his tour of duty
and returned to his home in Gal
veston.
When Yelton attended the Uni
versity of Houston football game
here this year he gave the ring to
Robinson. Yelton believed Parks
had been killed in Korea since the
ring was found beside the two com
munist soldiers.
He asked Robinson to contact
Parks’ family and return the ring
to them.
Checked Records
Robinson checked the records of
the Office of Former Students and
the college ring clerk. He found
listed several graduates named
J. N. Parks.
Then Robinson started writing
letters to some of these men. They
wrote back saying the ring did not
belong to them. However one of
Robinson’s letters was returned
with “No One by This Name at
This Address,” stamped on the en
velope.
Robinson then wrote the mother
of this Parks. She is Mrs. Margaret
Parks of San Antonio.
Mrs. Parks did not reply. How
ever, the letter was finally an
swered by a Joe Parks of Corpus
Christi. Parks said that the ring
belonged to him. His mother had
forward the letter to him.
Reclaim Ring
He said he would come to A&M
on Thanksgiving for the University
of Texas game and reclaim the
ring.
Robinson met Parks on Thanks
giving and gave him the ring.
Parks said someone had stolen the
ring from the glove compartment
of his car while he was on a fish
ing trip.
“The' thief or someone he gave
or sold my ring to must have gone
to Korea and been killed or cap
tured by the Chinese,” he said.
Robinson and Parks discovered
that they had both been graduated
from Schreiner Institute Junior
college in Kerrville before enter
ing A&M.
Could Not Attend
Yelton, who had found the ring
in Korea, could not attend the re
union. He was on his honeymoon
in New Orleans. His wife is the
former Miss Lee Terrell, a grad
uate of Rebecca Sealey Nursing
school in Galveston.
Yelton met her only a few days
before he gave Robinson the lost
ring,
A&M Helps Solve
Herd Sire Problem
By JIM WEATHERBY
Battalion Staff Writer
The guessing game in choosing a
good herd sire may soon be ended
for cattlemen, thanks to a group
of scientists in A&M’s biochemis
try and nutrition depaftment.
The scientists have discovered a
method to predict whether or not
a herd sire will gain weight, and
whether or not the sire can pass
weight-gaining qualities on to his
calves.
This means that a cattleman can
select a good bull scientifically and
from that bull get fast-gaining
calves. In time a whole herd of
cattle with superior weight-gain
ing abilities could be developed.
A blood test is used to predict
weight-gaining ability. Dr. H. O.
Kunkel, Dr. Mary F. Futrell and
David K. Stokes jr., developers of
the method, say it is “reasonably
accui'ate.”
They say they can predict how
much the animal will gain daily
under a pi’escribed feeding pro
gram—letting the animal eat all it
wants to.
The test has more meaning, the
scientists pointed out, because 60
to 90 per cent of an animal’s gain
ing ability is inherited.
When the experiments started,
the researchers had little to go on.
They went up many blind alleys
before they struck paydirt through
work with metabolism.
Metabolism is the chemical pro
cess by which the body uses food as
fuel. Although vitamins and other
nutrients used by the body didn’t
mean anything to the weight-gain
ing problem, a hormone called thy
roxine did.
Through their study of thy
roxine, the scientists learned of
what they called protein - bound
iodine in the blood. The protein-
bound iodine, or PBI, in the blood
directly effects the thyroid gland
in cattle, which in turn effects the
metabolism, or rate of gain.
Tests made on about 300 cattle
have showed that animals with a
low amount of PBI are poor gain-
Dorm Field Phones
To Be Replaced
Corps dormitory field telephones
will be replaced by Friday evening,
said Joe Bill McAllister, corps
communications officei*.
The phones were taken to Ft.
Hood at Belton for repairs and
modifications earlier in the week.
Ft. Hood did not have the neces
sary equipment for modifications,
so the telephones were returned
and are to be reinstalled tomorrow.
ers. The tests also showed that
those with too much PBI didn’t
gain fast either.
The top 20 per cent of the gain
ers were neai* the center, or me
dium amount, on the PBI scale.
The team of scientists has also
been working on heat tolerance in
cattle. Working with cattle of tro
pical origin, like the Indian Brah
man, they have discovered as-
enzyme, or digestive juice, that
aids these animals in resisting heat.
The enzyme, serum alkaline
phosphatese, helps metabolism by
breaking down certain food ma
terials.
Since this factor is also handed
down from parent to offspring,
simple tests can select breeder
bulls whose calves will be better
able to stand Texas summers.
By putting these two tests to
gether, cattlemen should be able
to choose the most promising calf
for growing a breeder bull.
No Immediate
Action Taken
On MSC Leaks
No immediate action will be
taken to repair the leaks in the
MSC roof, said C. R. Brock,
building superintendent.
Under the terms of its con-
tract with the bond holdei’s,
the college can not make re
pairs on the MSC unless im
mediate repairs ai’e needed to
prevent further property dam
age, explained Brock.
The leaks, one in the roof
over the hall near the bowling
alley entrance and the other in
the post office roof, are not
causing any property damage.
“When the leaks were re
ported to the bond holders,
they agreed to fix them, but
no action has been taken,” said
Brock.
The leaks were caused by ex
pansion and contraction of the
roof due to temperature
changes, he said.
‘Float-Out’ Refund
Made to Regiments
A correction has been made in
the amount of money the corps
of cadets was charged for. the re
cent “float outs”.
The original cost was $180 and
was paid by the corps. This amount
was then corrected to $101.88.
The corps is being refunded
$78.12 This money will be distribut
ed to the three regimental com
manders and they will divide it
equally among their outfits.
The refund was given because
the building and college utilities
department found some of the mis
sing flush valves, according to
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men.
Second Town Hall
Laughton To Read
Passages Monday
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion Feature Editor
America’s greatest one man
show comes to A&M Monday for
the second Town Hall performance
of the year.
“An Evening with Charles
Laughton” will be presented at 7
and 9 p. m. in Guion hall. Both per
formances will last one hour.
Persons with Town Hall season
passes should come by the stu
dent activities office and pick up
individual performance tickets, said
C. G. (Spike) White, student activi
ties manager.
Individual tickets will be sold to
persons without season passes for
$2 each, he said. Tickets may be
bought at the door or at the stu
dent activities office.
“An Evening with Charles
Laughton” is one of the strangest
plays in America. It has only one
actor, and books are its only
“props,” All Laughton does is read
passages from the books.
But strange or not, the perform
ance has been so successful with
the American people that Laughton
can draw more money at the box-
office than most full-dress attrac
tions, and all but top - ranking,
first-run movies.
Poultry Team
Wins National
Judging Contest
The A&M Poultry Judging
team captured first place re
cently at the national inter
collegiate poultry judging con
test in Chicago.
A&M was first out of the 22
college teams entered. University
of Arkansas was second and Uni
versity of North Carolina was
third.
Charley Kammerdiener, senior
from Gainesville, was first in in
dividual scoring at the contest.
Alton Fuchs, senior from Came
ron, was third, and Eugene
Rozacky, from Taylor, was fifth.
All three are senior poultry hus
bandry majors.
The roving trophy for the win
ner will now be kept at A&M for a
year.
The team and E. D. Parnell,
coach, will return Saturday.
Laughton, who describes his ap
pearance as that of “the hind side
of an elephant”, walks upon the
stage carrying an arm load of these
“props.”
These include the works of Dick
ens, Twain, Shakespeare, Benet,
Irving, Thurber and others. But he
never carries any he does not like
himself.
A recognized critic of letters,"
Laughton despises books with mes
sages. “Our classics of literature
were written for the entertain
ment and enlightment of mankind,’-’
he says. “They are works of art.
I say no creative work by a
genuinely great writer was wi’itten
with a message in mind.
“If I carried along a carload in
stead of an armload of books with
me on my reading tours, you may
be sure there would not be a mess
age in any of them.”
The Saturday Evening Post call
ed Laughton “a strangely and
richly endowed man.” Life gave
him 12 pages stressing the im
portance of his readings from
literary classics, and the new trend
of entertainment he has started.
Laughton directed and edited the
script of the play “John Brown’s
Body”, based on the book by Step
hen Vincent Benet.
News Briefs
TWO GROUPS of senior agri
cultural education students will go
to Waco and Brenham Saturday
to help judge area FFA leader
ship contests. Both gi'oups will re
turn to the campus Saturday even
ing.
THE AGRONOMY SOCIETY
discussed recently plans for the
Cotton Pageant and Ball scheduled
for April. Proceeds from the event
will finance a trip by the Agronomy
society to a Texas farm area.
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L. E. PAGE, state commander of
the American Legion, spoke
Wednesday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center on the battle 'the
Legion is conducting to fight public
apathy to Communism. The oc
casion was a bi-district meeting of
Texas American Legion districts
6 and 7.
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ROBERT P. STUART , former
A&M student, completed recently
his first solo flight as a naval
aviation cadet. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Stuart of
Joshua.
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EDWARD L. MAREK, president
of the Slavonic Benevolent Order
of the State of Texas, will speak
to the A&M Czech club at 7:30 p.
m. Tuesday in the social room of
the Memorial Student Center.
FIVE MEMBERS of the chemi
cal engineering department have
returned from a two day tour of
the Dow Chemical company labora
tories in Freepoif. Those making
the trip wei'e Dr. J. D. Lindsay,
Dr. R. V. Andrews, Dr. W. D. Hol
land, Dr. W. D. Harris and F. F.
Bishop.
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MUD KEPT air force ROTC stu
dents from drilling yesterday, said
T/Sgt. Turner M. Buford of the
air science department. Buford in
spected the drill field at 11 a. m.
yesterday and decided it was too
wet to drill.
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THE THIRD Brunswick Red
Crown bowling contest will be Dec.
5 to 13. Prizes range from $100 in
cash to a $1 bowling coupon. Con
testants may also win bowling balls
and other equipment, said John
Geiger, manager of the Memorial
Student Center bowling alleys.
Capacity Crowd
Expected Mondays
A capacity crowd is expected for
the 7 p. m. Charles Laughton
Town Hall performance Monday in
Guion Hall.
Over 1,600 of the 2,000 tickets
available for the 7 p. m. perform
ance have been picked up, said
John Akard, student entertain
ment manager. Over half of the
9 p. m. show tickets have been
picked up.
Tickets for either performance
may be obtained by showing a
season Town Hall pass at the stu
dent activities office or the din
ing hall. Tickets will not be dis
tributed outside the dining hall
after tonight, Akard said.
Tickets will be sold to pepole
without season passes at $2 a per
son at the student activities office
or at the door, he said.