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Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953 Page 5 ,4F, Army Teams it Today’s 121h Man Bowl game will end in a tie if spirit and hustle have any effect on a team’s per formance, observers believe. Both squads are eagerly await ing the 2:45 p. m. kiskoff in Kyle field after light workouts yester day. Tickets are 50 cents, with pro ceeds going into the student aid fund. A crowd of 4-5,000 is ex pected to watch this second benefit game. The Fish drill team and the A&M tumbling team will put on some top half-time entertainment. Coi-ps units will march into the game. The following places will have tickets on sale for College Station and Bryan residents-Office of Stu dent Activities in Goodwin hall, Madeloy’s Drug Store, Aggieland Pharmacy, Major’s Cafe, Canady’s Pharmacy, Lipscomb’s Pharmacy, S rp i t h’s Cleaners, Youngblood’s and the Memorial Student Center. Over three-fourths of tickets is sued for sale to corps units had beqn sold by Tuesday afternoon. The army will wear white jerseys with red numerals, and the air foi-ce will play in i-ed jerseys with white numbers. Quarters will be 12 minutes long. Coaches of both teams refused to predict the winner, but were pleased with the way their play- jrs had rounded into form. News Briefs Connie Magouirk, head coach of the army, said, “They all have done exceptionally well in the short time they’ve had. They all want to play hard, and they don’t mind popping that leather.” The army’s line men have “look ed a lot better than 1 thought they would,” said Durwood Scott, line coach. Other army coaches are Dave Smith and Joe Schero, backs, Eric Miller, ends, and Norbert Ohlen- dorf, line. Probable starters in the army’s T-formation backfield are Quart erback, Gene Harding, College View, 170; Halfback-Buddy Fair, company C, 155; and Tom Keese, company B, 180; Fullback, Bob Sanders, A field artillery, 175. J. E. O’Connell, company K, is also due to see much service at quarterback. The starting ends will be chosen from these three-W. D. Abraham, ASA, 195; W. P. Steinman, A armor, 175; and Charles Shreve, company L, 180. Probable starters in the army line are: Offense-Guards, J. Weems, A engineers, 170; and Byrne James, company F, 185; Tackles, Paul Savage, ASA, 200; and Bill Kiett, dorm 5, 250; Center, M. E. Mc- Feron, B infantry, 175. (Sec ‘AF, Army’, Page 6) Who’s Who at A&M Board Will Meet Friday THE A&M BOARD of directors will meet here Friday to discuss revenue bonds for construction at Prairie View A&M college. The proposed bonds are for construc tion of dormitories and faculty housing units. The meeting is a called meeting. HOWARD BOSWELL, assistant state conservationist for the Soil Conservation service, will be on the campus Jan. 4 at the end of the semester to talk to agriculture majors interested in soil conserva tion work. All majors in any agri culture field are eligible for the work, Boswell said. ijc jfc A WORKSHOP for teachers of vocational agriculture in Area III will be held here Jan. 8 and 9. about 80 teachers are expected to be present. Henry Ross of the agri culture education department is in charge of the program. * * THE DALLAS A&M club will hold its annual Christmas dance on Dec. 29 in the Jefferson hotel in Dallas. The dance starts at 8 p. m. Tickets cost $8 with or without a date. * * * ONLY 285 corps seniors have had their pictures made for the 1954 Aggieland, said Mac Moore of the annual staff. One hundred non corps senioi’s have had pictures taken. Moore said that seniors who have not had pictures made should do so as soon as possible. Seniors who wait are delaying the annual’s publication, he said. * * Jfc THE TREES that have been missing from the MSC-side of the main drill field are now being re placed. The trees were planted as a memorial to A&M World War I dead. NEW PREXY — J. B. (Dick) Hervey, center, receives the pin as new president of the College Station Kiwanis club. Out-going president Hershel Burgess, right, presents the pin. Raymond Robbins, trustee of Kiwanis International, looks on. Students To Represent 4&M at Cotton Bowl Six A&M students will represent the school at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Jan. 1. At the game as members of the Southwest Sportsmanship commit tee will be Ide Trotter, student senate president; Vol M'. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader; Jer ry Robinett, athletic representa tive; and Jerry Bennett, Battalion co-editor. Harri Baker of A&M, executive secretary of the committee, will al so attend the game. Corps Commander Fred Mitchell will be official escort for Miss Jane McBrierty, A&M’s princess at the Cotton Bowl. Miss McBrierty and other conference school princesses will be presented as a part of the pre-game ceremonies. The students will arrive in Dal las Dec. 30 for dinner dance given Wallace Birkes B. K. Bovd Holiday Power Cut Because of necessary repairs to the big turbine at the college power plant during the holidays, everyone using power supplied by the college plant is requested to use as little as possible dur ing the two-week period start ing Saturday, according to a statement by Chancellor M. T. Harrington this morning. Flu Cases Reaeh 45 In Brazos County Forty - five cases of influenza were reported in Brazos county on last week’s report of the Bryan- Brazos county health unit. Twenty of the cases were in College Station and 25 were in Bi’yan. There were 30 cases of diarrhea reported, 7 in College Station and 23 in Bryan. by the Cotton Bowl association. They will attend the general Cot ton Bowl luncheon for teams, coaches and school officials Dec. 31. The group will attend the Cot ton Bowl students’ dance Dec. 31. The members of the Sportsman ship committee will meet Jan. 1 to announce the winner of the annual Sportsmanship trophy, given by the group. The trophy will be presented during the pre-game ceremonies that afternoon. It is given annual ly to the conference school that has “shown the best all-round sportsmanship” during the preced ing year. Code Is Altered Counci I Honor Code Revision Passed Unanimously The council of the School of Agriculture voted unani mously Monday night to inaugurate a revision of the honor code in all agriculture classes next semester. The new code would allow TO per cent of the students in any section to disapprove the code without its being dropped. This is change from the previous code which said passage by a section had to be unanimous. “We adopted this more lenient form of the honor code in hopes that more classes would pass and use it,” said Ken Hall president of the Agriculture council. In view of the poor reception the first code had, the coun cil members felt a less harsh code would meet with wider ♦approval in A&M classrooms. Battalion A committee compose<1 of To Enter Contest This edition of The Bat talion, which contains the an nual Safety Edition, will be entei’ed in the safety contest sponsored by the Lumbermans Mutual Casuality company of California. In the past, The Battalion has won several awards f o r editorial excellence in this con test, including one first place. Individual staff members have also won awards for out standing articles and cartoons. College newspapers from all parts of the country par ticipate in the contest. RE Questionnaires Are Due In Soon Gordon Gay, YMCA director, has urged all married couples to return their questionnaii’es on Religious Emphasis Week. He said he has received only about 25 per cent of the question naires back, and that with the self- addressed envelopes given out with each questionnaire, the number of returns should be much higher. Gay said he hopes to get them back by the holidays, so the results may be tabulated as soon as pos sible. 50 Years A&M Helps Flight Progress Kert Goode Carl Wilson Yes, he had the right of way, but what good will it do him now? Learn to share the road. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to insist c>n the right of way. Be Careful—the life you save may be your own! Sponsored in the interest of your safety by > Jerry Barton ’53 District Manager National Farm Life Ins. Co. Aggieland Phcy. Bldg. North Gate Pho. 6-5184 Res. 4-5504 By BILL COLE Battalion Staff Writer During the past 13 years of the half century since the first power ed airplane flight in 1903, A&M’s aeronautical engineering depart ment has contributed much to avia tion’s rapid progress. The 50th anniversary of man’s first powered airplane flight will be observed today. 50 years ago Orville Wright was airborne for 12 seconds at Kittyhawk, N. C. From that time until today aviation has developed faster than any other industry. Few industries have been so vital to the state of Texas as has aviation. Plants of three of the country’s largest aircraft manu facturers,, Temco, Chance-Vought, j and Consolidated-Vultee, are locat ed in the Ft. Worth-Dallas area, j These plants employ 70,000 people and put out an annual payroll of $225,000,000. Commercial Airlines Texas also has 11 major air lines that employ approximately 6,000 people and put out a $26,000,000 annual payroll. These airlines transport over three mil lion passengers annually and more than 100,000 miles of flights are scheduled daily. A&M’s aeronautical engineering ! department was established in 1940 | by H. W. Barlow, present dean of engineering. Courses offered were aimed, principally, at training men for aircraft design and research. As the years pased, other courses preparing men for sales engineers, career pilots, maintenance and test ing of aircraft were added to the curriculum. A&M Fliers Help Today, graduates of the depart ment are contributing to the na tion’s civilian and military aero nautical development. A graduate of the A&M depart ment was at the controls of the Boeing XB - 52, world’s largest operational jet bomber, in its first test flight recently. The pilot of an F-86 jet fighter, following the giant ship as a safety observer, was also an A&M aeronautical engineering graduate. Research Center Operating from what has been classified the finest college owned airport in the nation, Easterwood Airport, A&M has become the country’s leading personal aircraft research centers. Under the di rection of Fred Weick, head of the research center, much has been done at A&M to boost safety of private flying. Weick designed , of the Ercoupe, popular two-place light plane which was the first ship of its type to feature coordinated controls. He also was the principle figure in the design and construction of the Ag - 1, an airplane built specificially for agricultural pur poses. The plane was built at the college field. In 1948 the research center con ducted a survey to determine the main cause of engine failure in aircraft engines. As a result of the survey, an engine with dual igni tion and and carburetor systems. Having recently moved to new modern quarters in the Engineei’- ing building, the aeronautical engi neering department expects to turn out even better engineers in the future. Science Croup To Meet Here In April The Texas Academy of Science will meet here April 2-3, in conjunction with the Annual Science Teachers’ con ference. Three divisions of the Academy, seniors, collegiate and juniors, will take part in the meeting. The sen iors, composed of graduate stu dents, teachers and research work ers, will hold sessions for reports on research. Biological, physical, earth and social sciences will be represented. The collegiate and junior divis ions, composed of undergraduates and high school seniors, will have their own programs. Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the Department of Oceanography, is executive vice - president of the Academy, in charge of programs; Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the Biology department, is a director in the Academy and Dr. J. G. Potter, head of the physics department, is chairman of the committee on the annual science teachers conference; Chas. LaMottee, of the biology de partment, is director of the collegi ate chapter. Dr. Joe Harris of Southern Methodist university is president of the Academy. € A II T S O BA • • • CHILD AT PLAT -{At4't4rfe^G€J.. .TK THEY ONLY LIVE ONCE! Children at play are accident bait. So teach them how to take care of themselves. As a citi zen. as a parent, as a driver BE CAREFUL ... ths life you accept your responsibility. save may he your own! Hall, Bob Butter, Leonard Stasney and Alton Fuchs in vestigated the old honor code for about two weeks before pre senting their recommendations to the council. Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Agriculture praised the revision as a “step in the right di rection,” Hall said. The code as revised by the Agri culture council is as follows: “I will hold my honor above all other personal considera tions. In observance of this, I pledge, on my honor, that in this class: “I will not lie, cheat or steal. “I will not take unfair ad vantage of my fellow students nor of the teacher. “If I shall come to know of the violation of any of these by a fellow student in this class, I will make known to a student committee elected in this section, both the offense and the offender, and leave to the discretion of this commit tee any action that shall he taken in continuing or revok ing the Honor System in this class.” Hall urges adoption of the re vised code by other school councils also. Students who decline to sign the pledge do not have to abide by it regardles of the class vote, Hall said. Many students who refuse to take the pledge may do so because they consider the pledge an in sult to their integrity and may re ject the pledge as a matter of principle, said Hall. “About one per cent of those who refuse to sign will probably do so because they intend to cheat,” Hall said. The committees set up in each section would sit as a sort of court, deciding on the guilt or in nocence of the student or students charged with violations of the code, Hall said. In extreme cases, they might call in the profesor of the classes or even go directly to the dean of the school, he said. “I think this code is a step in the move to get A&M an honor code which is more effective,” Hall said, “but we’ve got to do it gradually.” Bryan Motors 1309 S. HWY. 6 PHONE 2-1605 Accidents Do Happen Play It Safe . . . Drive Safely H. T. WINKLER 26 - 27 Astin Bldg. Bryan