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Number 157: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1953
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News Mashes
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—The Rig Three Western powers have
formally asked Russia to discuss the future of Germany and
Austria at a meeting in Berlin next month. On the record,
they neither encouraged nor shut off the possibility of a later
session to include China. Notes to the Kremlin from Wash
ington, London and Paris were made public last night.
HOUSTON—-H. E. Cullen, fabulous oilmamphilanthrop-
ist, said today he didn’t give the University of Houston
$2,500,000 because its football team upset ninth-ranked Bay
lor Nov. 14, ‘‘I was planning to give this before we played
the game,” he said in a letter rejecting an invitation to pre
sent a New York touchdown club award to former Yale foot
ball great Pudge Heffelfinger. ‘T merely announced the gift
at a football rally to lend enthusiasm to the students.”
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic — Porfirio
Rubirosa, playboy diplomat and onetime husband of Doris
Duke, has been hooted out of his job as minister-counselor
of the Dominican Embassy in Paris. The government final
ly got fed up with Ihe international headlines accompanying
his romancing,
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WASHINGTON—College and university enrollment in
the United States totals 2,250,701 this fall, an increase of
4.8 per cent over last year. The U. S. Office of Education,
making - public its annual count today, said this was the
second consecutive year in which enrollments had increased.
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DENVER—Butter-fingered thieves left an expensive
trail for police in a $4,000 burglary. Clothing, guns and
jewelry, including 120 watches, were reported stolen. Harold
Kal, operator of a war surplus store, yesterday pointed out (o
police a three-block trail of footprints in Denver’s new snow,
along which was distributed a good share of Ihe loot.
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NEW YORK—A cancer researcher has told a science
symposium today that “prolonged and heavy use of cigar
ettes increases up to 20 times Ihe risk of developing cancer
of the lung.” The statement was made by Dr. Ernest L.
Wynder, who is doing research on the disease at Memorial
Center’s Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, at
a New York denial meeting on the subject “The Cigarette.”
Dr. Wynder reported interviews with 1,000 men suffering
fancer of the lung. Only 15, he said, were non-smokers.
AN. - 5 :
Iviwanis Club Sees
Movie About Europe
Colored slides of scenes in
Europe were shown yesterday to
the College Station Kiwanis club.
Narrating the presentation was
Dr. Meta S. Brown of the agro
nomy department. Dr. Brown took
the pictures while she was attend
ing a conference in Italy.
She spent sevei’al days befoi’e
the conference touring the Nether
lands, France and Germany. The
slides showed views of the home
life in the different countries, and
many of the historic landmarks. A
few of the slides showed the pro-
AH SWC Students
Invited to Dance
Any Southwest conference stu
dent in Dallas dui’ing the Christ
mas holidays is invited to the con
ference New Years Eve dance, ac
cording to Melvin T. Munn, chair
man of the committee for the
party.
The dance will begin at 9 p. m.
in Southern Methodist university’s
Student union building.
The queen and pi'incess from the
seven conference schools and mem
bers of the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship committee have
been invited to the party.
Also invited are student repre
sentatives from the University of
Alabama, which plays Rice in
stitute in the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1
in Dallas.
Music will be provided by the
Cell Block Seven, a Dallas dixie
land band. Other entertainment in
cludes the Kilgore Rangerettes and
talent from the conference schools.
Refreshments will be seiwed.
“We’d like to have as many stu
dents as posible,” Munn said, “be
cause this is fhe student’s party.”
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear to partly cloudy and con
tinued cool. High yestex-day 68.
Dow this morning 43,
cess Ihe European countries are
going through to repair the ex
tensive war damage.
“Prices are high evei’ywhere in
Europe,” Dr. Brown said. “Ai'ticles
made in Italy wei'e higher there
than in this country.”
Dr. Brown visited several edu
cators in the diffei'ent countries.
She said the people she visited
wei’e paid so little that it was hax-d
for them to buy little more than
the essentials of life.
“War reconstruction is slow, but
they are gx-adually x'ebuilding their
cities,” Dr. Brown said.
SCOUT LEADERS—Newly elected officers for the Brazos-
Robertson Counties Boy Scout committee are, from left to
right, D. D. Burchard, vice chairman; Roland C. Dansby,
chairman; and Dr. E. E. Ivy, district commissioner.
New Scout
Announces
District
Officers
Officers were elected last night
at a meeting to organize the new
ly formed Brazos-Robex’tson Coxm-
ties Boy Scout disti'ict.
The new district was formed by
joining the existing Brazos and
Robertson disti’icts.
Roland C. Dansby of Bryan was
elected chairman. Vice chairmen
are D. D. BtU'cRai’d of College Sta
tion and C. E. Blake of Heame. Dr.
E. E. Ivy of College Station is the
new district commissioner.
The two distx-icts were joined to
make a moi'e efficient organization
and to save on manpower, Bux-ch-
ai’d said. The merger was a pai’t
of a reorganization of the Sam
Faircloth
Takes Job
At Greenville
Dalton Faii’cloth will be the
next head coach at Greenville
high school.
He received word early this
morning from the superinten
dent of schools in Greenville
that he had the job.
Faircloth resigned Monday
morning as offensive backfield
coach for the Aggies. His res
ignation will be effective Feb.
1, 1954.
“This is an excellent oppor
tunity I have, and I certainly
am glad to get the job,” Fair
cloth said.
‘‘Students Should Correct
Parking Habits,-■•Hickman
“The students who pai’k their
cars in the dorm 3 and 5 parking
lot should pai’k at a 90 - degree
angle instead of a 45-degree angle,”
said Fred Hickman, chief of cam
pus security.
Senior Favorites
Accepted Now
Pictures for the senior favorites
section of the 1954 Aggieland are
now being accepted in the student
activities office, said Bill Bowdoin,
activities editox - .
The pictui’es should be a mini
mum size of 3 by 5 and a maxi
mum of 5 by 7. Black-and-white
glossy pi'ints ai’e perferred. No
color pictui’es will be accepted,
Bowdoin said.
Only two pictures from each
senior will be accepted, with a
charge of $2 a picture being made.
The full name of the favorite and
the name of the person submitting
the picture should be printed on
the back of the photograph.
The pictures will not be accept
ed after Feb. 8.
Voters Approve
New Courthouse
Bonds for a new coui’thouse and
jail for Brazos county were ap
proved Saturday by about a five
to one majority of county votes.
The election approved the is
suance of $800,000 in bonds for the
project.
The new building, to be designed
by Caudill, Rowlett and Scott and
Associates of Bi’yan will be built
on the present courthouse site.
County Judge A. S. Ware said he
does not expect a contract to be
let for construction for six
months. He said at least a two-
story building would be needed.
Hickman said that if the stu
dents would park their cars
straight in the lot there would be
more room in the lots, and cars
could get out easier.
An officer was stationed at the
lot after the Thanksgiving holidays
to supervise parking.
The students parked correctly
for a few days, bxit they are now
pai’king at various angles as be
fore, Hickman said.
A tx-affic committee composed of
students and faculty members is
working on new traffic regulations.
The committee has sent some
new rules to the president for ap
proval.
Top Aggie Talent
To Represent A&M
First and second place winners
in Fridays Aggie Talent show will
represent A&M in the Intercollegi
ate Talent show held here every
spring.
An all-Aggie can can line, com
posed of eight members of the
Memorial Student Center music
committee, has been added to the
entei’tainment.
The eleven other acts will also
be perfoi'med by local Aggie talent.
The show will be 7:45 p. m. Fri
day in the MSG ballroom. No ad
mission will be charged and the
public is invited.
Thi’ee judges will be selected
from the college staff.
Class Visits Temple
Experiment Station
The Agronomy 418 class return
ed yesterday from a trip to the
Temple experiment station.
The group studied conservation
practices on the station and sur
rounding farms.
Houston Council of the Boy Scouts.
The new committee will have 80
members. Sixty attended last
night’s meeting at the Fix’st Bap
tist church in Bryan.
The new officers will be installed
at the disti’ict’s annual meeting
Jan. 2 in Sbisa dining hall. Their
first business meeting will be Jan.
11 at the First Baptist church.
The main goal of the new dis
ti'ict committee will be to increase
the number of boys in the scout
ing program in this area from the
present 500 to about 1,300, Burch-
ard said.
Supreme Court Ends
IT 1 IT ®
Legal Hearings in Lase
Segregation Ruling
Not Expected Soon
Odd Christmas
Tree Erected
In MSC Friday
An unusual Christmas tree
was designed and erected in
the main lounge of the Me
morial Student Center by the
Floriculture and Landscape
Architecture society Friday.
The tree was designed by Bud
Brady and erected Fi'iday night
under the supei’ivision of A1 J.
Tolle, said Albert E. Cusick, presi
dent of the society.
While the tree was being erected,
a little boy watched with bulging
eyes and txxrning to his mother ask
ed, “Mommy what is it?” A lady
from California, who was also
watching, commented, “Why what
a beautiful manzanita tree that is.”
Another bystander commented,
“This is the first time I ever saw
a Chi’istmas tree without needles.”
The tree is a large oak branch
with its limbs covered by a blue
and white frosting decoration, off
set by clusters of white frosted
pine cones centered with silver balls
and ribbon.
To add to its beauty, silver tinsel
streamers are hung on the limbs of
the branch.
Paper Has Grown
School Paper
Is Now Successful
A&M Consolidated high school’s
newspaper has fought its way fi’om
debt and neai’-bankruptcy to a
1,000 - copy circulation and two
awai'ds of merit.
Most of the CHS Roundup’s pro
gress has taken place in the last
two years. In 1951, the paper found
itself with a circulation of 400 and
px-actically no money.
The staff managed to make it
thi'ough the year, but in 1952 they
found themselves in the same
shape. Enough money was left for
only one publication.
The Roundup was published four
times that year, going into debt on
the second and thii’d editions. By
holding a spring carnival, the staff
made enough' money to pay for
the fourth publication.
Miss Betsy Bui’chai’d, daughter
of the head of A&M’s joui'nalism
depai’tment, took the editorship
this year and started the paper to-
wai’ds its present standing.
Clifton Bates, The Battalion’s
Agronomy Class Makes
Pasture Field Trip
Dr. R. C. Potts’ Agronomy 415
class took a field ti’ip to South
Texas Thui'sday and Friday to ob
serve pasture improvement pro
grams.
Thui'sday the class visited the
Lxxling Foundation, a privately
owned institution, and the farm of
Pat Higgins, a cei’tified seed
grower.
CHS sports coi’respondent, was ap
pointed spoi’ts editor; Miss Sandx-a
Coixch was named news editor; and
Bill Little was named business
managei’.
Staff Repoi’ters
Staff importers are Tom Ivy,
band news; Fred Anderson, car
toonist; Bobby Jackson and
Charles Johnson, Jim Forsythe, ’50,
who began teaching English at
CHS last yeai’, is sponsoiv
The Roundup staff belongs to a
club which holds X’egular weekly
meetings. The only credit members
X’eceive is a club activity grade.
Under their direction, The Round
up is published once every two
weeks, and given to students free
of charge.
“We plan to do this the entire
year, too,” Miss Burchard said.
The paper is a four-page edition,
and every two or three publications
carry two extra pages. The Round
up is financed by advertisements
sold to College Station and Bryan
businessmen.
For the first time, the newspaper
was x'epresented Dec. 3-5 at the
Texas High School Press associa
tion convention in Denton.
Miss Burchai’d, Miss Couch and
Jei’ry Holmes wei’e Consolidated’s
representatives. Over 600 students
from high schools throughout the
state attended the meeting.
D. D. Burchai’d, head of the A&M
journalism department was a
speaker at the convention.
By KARL R. BAUMAN
WASHINGTON—OP)—The Supreme Court hears today
the last of the legal arguments it requested for guidance in
the momentous decision whether segregation of whites and
Negroes in public schools violates the Constitution.
The justices probably will take several months to reach
their conclusions, write their decision on the main issue and
—if it is against segregation—on whether and how the fed
eral judiciary may provide for a period of transition.
Attornies already had spoken their final words in cases
involving Virginia, South Carolina and Kansas. The Court
turned today to cases from the District of Columbia and
Delaware.
—^ The Eisenhower adminis
tration joined up yesterday
with those urging the high
court to outlaw segregation,
but Virginia, South Carolina
and Kansas contended the ques
tion of dual school systems was
for the legislatures—not the courts
—to decide.
Seventeen states and the District
of Columbia require some form of
racial segregation in public schools.
Three other states permit it.
Asst. Atty. Gen. J. Lee Rankin,
who spoke for the Eisenhower ad-
ministration, told the nine justices
yesterday they have the “power
and duty” to rule that segrega
tion violates the 14th Amendment.
J. Lindsay Almond Jr., Virginia’s
attorney general, countered that
the court was being asked by oppo
nents of segregation “to go farther
than the Congress ever intended
this court should go,”
And T. Justin Moore, who also
spoke for Virginia, told the court
the -segregation issue calls for judi
cial resti’aint “if any issue ever
has.”
“In my humble judgment, there
isn’t anything you could do that
would be worse than an adverse
decree,” Moore added.
Thurgood Marshall, Negro attor
ney for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, said the question is
“whether or not the wishes of these
states shall prevail or whether our
Constitution shall prevail.”
Rankin, under questioning, said
the Justice Department adopts the
views on segregation expressed in
a brief filed by the Truman ad
ministration last year. This brief
called the “separate but equal”
doctrine laid down by the Supreme
Court in 1896 “wrong,” and asked
the court to re-examine and over
turn it. The Justice Department
said Rankin was speaking for the
present administration.
Fire Causes
$100 Damage
In Hart Hall
A fire last Thursday in Hart
hall caused an estimated $100
damage.
The blaze started when a
book shelf damaged the in
sulation on a radio cord, ac
cording to Ray R. Barrett jr.,
one of the occupants of the
room.
Besides burning the radio
and book shelf, a desk lamp,
all Barrett’s books and im
portant papers and notes were
destroyed. No damage was
done to the room or desk.
Barrett said he had been
gone from the room about ten
minutes when Glenn Blake
noticed smoke coming from an
adjoining room. Blake and
Erie Miller fought their way
into the smoke filled room and
extinguished the fire before
additional damage was done.
Rodeo Team lakes
Fourth at MclVeese
The A&M rodeo team won fourth
place at the Intercollegiate rodeo
at McNeese State college, Lake
Charles, Louisiana over the week
end.
Oklahoma A&M was first, Hard
in Simmons, second, and Sul Ross,
third. Fifteen schools competed in
the show.
Aggies who placed in the events
were Kenneth Beaseley, first in
bull riding; Lowie Rice, third in
calf roping: and Bob Rankin, sixth
in bareback bronc riding.
Debate Tournament Set
Here; Begins Friday
The A&M Discussion and Debate
club will sponsor a debate tour
nament here beginning Friday
morning.
Teams from more than 12 Tex
as colleges, junior colleges and
universities are expected to send
delegates.
Debates will be held all day Fri
day and Saturday morning in the
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PRACTICE DEBATORS—James Slatton of Baylor university speaks in the senate cham
ber of the Memorial Student Center in a practice debate for the A&M debate tournament
this weekend. Others in the picture are (left to right) John Samuels of A&M, Ken
Scott of A&M, Slatton, and Fletcher Brown of Baylor.
YMCA, the Academic building and
the Memorial Student Center.
Trophies will be awarded Satur
day at a luncheon in the MSC.
During the luncheon, a formal dis
cussion will be held on the question
of what should be done about Con
gressional investigation.
Vic Wiening and John D. Ebbs
of the English department, coaches
for A&M’s team, will award the
trophies in both the junior and
senior divisions.
Schools expected to compete are
A&M, University of Houston, TCU,
Baylor, University of Texas, Blinn
junior college, Trinity university,
Abilene Christian college, Stephen
P. Austin college, Mary Hardin
Baylor, North Texas State college,
Hardin-Simmons university and
others.
Monday Town Hall
Show Postponed
There will be no Town Hall pro
gram Monday as scheduled. The
program will be presented at a
later date, but has not yet de
finitely been set.
The student entei’tainment com
mittee had originally planned a
popular number for that Monday,
but could book no popular enter
tainers for the date.
The program probably will he
booked after the new Physical Edu
cation bidding has been complet
ed, so all Town Hall ticket holders
can be seated in one performance.
The next show will be the San
Antonio symphony orchestra,
scheduled for Jan. 7,