Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953
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,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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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c>n the right of way.
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District Manager
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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.
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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.”
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