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Number 169: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1954
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Meet Here Feb. 12
First Of Kind
Nine junior colleges have indi
cated they will send about 65 dele
gates to the First Annual Texas
Junior College Press conference to
he held here February 12-13.
The confei’enee, first of its kind
in Texas, is being sponsored by the
A&M Journalism club. Workshop
and discussion sessions will be held
for different phases of small col
lege journalism.
Delegates representing news
papers, yearbooks, and student ad
visor groups may participate in
sessions on advertising, reporting,
System Heads
Discuss Budget
Requests
Preparation of requests to
be made to the Legislative
Budget board were discussed
yesterday at the first meet
ing of the year of the A&M
eystem presidents.
The request will probably be
Inade some time this summer, ac-
rording to Henderson Shuffler,
eystem director of information.
Also discussed were the system’s
hospitalization insurance plan and
the organizational improvements
being made in the system.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington
presided at the meeting, which was
>n his office.
Attending the meeting were As
sistant Chancellor E. L. Angell; T.
R. Spence, manager of physical
plants; W. C. Freeman, comptrol
ler; President David H. Morgan,
A&M; President E. B. Evans,
Prairie View A&M college; Presi
dent E. H. Hereford, Arlington
State college.
President E. H. Howell, Tarleton
State college; Director A. D. Fol-
weiler, Texas foi'est service, Di
rector It. D. Lewis, Agricultural
experiment station; Director G. G.
Gibson, Agricultural extension
service; and Shuffler.
public relations, make - up and
others.
Wayne It. Dean, general chair
man of the conference, said nine
colleges have written that they will
send delegates, and word is ex
pected from other colleges soon.
The conference was arranged
upon request of some of the col
leges. It will open with registration
in. the Memorial Student Center at
3 p. m. Friday, Feb. 12.
W. R. Beaumier, vice-president
and general manager of the Lufkin
Publishing company and publisher
of the Lufkin Daily-News, will be
the principal speaker for the con
ference.
His talk will follow the welcom
ing address by President D. H.
Morgan Friday night at a dinner
for the delegates in the MSC. A
semi-formal dance will close Fri
day’s activities.
Saturday the conference will be
divided into separate sessions for
representatives of newspapers,
yearbooks and student advisor
groups.
A&M journalism students, in
cluding Jim Ashlock, Harr! Baker,
Jerry Bennett, Bob Boriske, Ed
Holder and Jon Kinslow, will be
moderators for the sessions,
Roland Bing, manager of Student
publications on leave-of-absence,
will lead the discussion for the
yearbook session. Assisting him
will be Tom Murray, chief artist of
Taylor Publishing company of Dal
las, and Carl Jobe, acting manager
of" student publications. Murray
will talk on “Layout In Choosing
A Theme.”
D. D. Burchard, head of the
journalism department, said, “A&M
students who help in the conference
will get valuable experience. Mem
bers of the department staff will
gladly do what they can to help
make it a success.”
Junior colleges which have said
they will send delegates ai’e De
catur Baptist college, Howard
County Junior college, Kilgore
Junior college, Paris Junior college,
Schreiner institute, Southwestern
Bible institute, Taileton State
college, Victoria college, and
Wharton County junior college.
Committees
l)r. Victor Alessandro
Symphony Conductor
Next Town Hall
5L4* Symphony
(killed “Prodigy
The 80-piece San Antonio Sym
phony orchestra, conducted by Dr.
Victor Alessandro, will present the
third Town Hall program of the
year tomorrow in Guion hall.
Called the “prodigy” of U. S.
orchestras, the group will give
two concerts, one at 7 p. m. and the
other at 9 p. m.
Persons with Town Hall season
passes may obtain tickets by pre
senting the passes at the student
activities office in Goodwin hall,
or in front of Duncan mess hall
after the evening meal.
Tickets also will be available at
the door. Pei’sons without season
passes may buy tickets for $2 at
the student activities office.
Standards Slipping
Center Needs
By MARRI BAKER
Battalion Campus Editor
There are going to be some
changes in the Memorial Student
Center.
They will be little changes, but
together they add up to something
big: The MSC doesn’t have enough
money to continue operating as it
has been.
Some of the changes are already
noticeable. There are no flower
displays any place in the Center
now. After Sunday, the candy and
cigarette counter in the fountain
room will be discontinued.
The tables in the dining room
will not have tablecloths on them
from now on. Four members of the
foods staff have been released.
Wea th er Today
Clear today and tonight with no
expected change tomorrow. High
yesterday 67. Low this morning
37.
As soon as a small cafeteria,
counter is installed in the fountain
room, the coffee shop will start
closing at noon, and will not serve
lunch.
The furniture upholsterer and
the refinisher who formerly worked
full-time keeping the Center’s ex
pensive furniture in new condition
are now working only paid-time.
Other changes that may be neces
sary later this year, because of
lack of funds, include a reduction
of cleaning services after night
meetings and no air conditioning in
the meeting rooms this spring.
What has brought all this about?
Activities Divided
It’s a plain case of lack of funds.
The MSC activities are divided into
three paits: the student program,
such as clubs, dances and other
events; the business enterprises,
such as the gift shop, dining areas,
and hotel rooms; and the facilities,
which include all the free areas
such as the lounges and meeting
I’ooms, and the care it takes to keep
these areas in good shape.
The student program is paid for
by Exchange Store funds. The
business areas make a profit, and
the profit is used to help pay for
the facilities.
The State of Texas gives the
Center funds each year for its
adult education program, which
pays for the use of Center facilities
by short course visitors.
Needs Money
But this isn’t enough money. In
the past, the Center received money
from surplus funds built up during
the war. Examples of these were
the Exchange Store and Aggieland
Inn surpluses.
But now the surplus funds are
almost gone. There will be no
money coming to the Center from
that source.
Until this year, the MSC got one
dollar per student each semester
(See CENTER, Page 2)
.. Galled among the leading or
ganizations of this country” by
British music bai'onet Sir Thomas
Beecham, the orchestra is under
the permanent musical directorship
of Alessandro.
Alessandro succeeded the late
Max Reiter, the orchestra’s found
ing conductor. A native Texan,
Alessandro is also the founder of
the Oklahoma City Symphony
orchestra.
The San Antonio Symphony was
the only orchestra to offer a full
opera season along with its regular
activities. The New York Herald-
Tribune wrote, “Everybody in
terested in giving opera to America
should take a look at what San
Antonio has done.”
After hearing the orchestra over
the National Broadcasting com
pany radio network, Arturo Toscan
ini said, “ . . . a fine performance,
which is a thing that does not
happen very often even with
famous oi’chestras and widely pub
licized conductors.”
The organization has been pub
licized by Time, Newsweek, New
Yorker and Reader’s Digest maga
zines and newspapers.
Dimitri Mitropoulos, who was
once guest conductor, said, “The
San Antonio Symphony can really
compete with any orchestra in
this country and Europe.”
May Be Recommended,
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Co-Editor
Eight representatives of the Student Life committee meet today in what could be the
first step in censoring The Battalion, all other student publications and controlling Aggie
yell practices.
The group of four students and four members of the faculty and staff will meet at
2 p.m. in the office of C. G. (Spike) White, director of student activities. White’s office
is located on the second floor of Goodwin Hall.
Members of this group are to decide if standing committees are needed for yell lead
ers and student publications.
Battalion co-editors Ed Holder and Jerry Bennett voted against the motion which
formed this group at the last meeting of the Student Life committee. They believed
it would lead to censorship of the press.
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If the group favors forming the standing committees, it will draw up a motion to
amend the student life constitution so that the committees can be added. Duties and
membership of the committees will also be recommended.
Here are the members of the group that will make today’s decision.
Students: Carroll Phillips, corps scholastic officer^ Doyle F. Lowery, non-military
student; Billy Henderson, non-military student and T, B, Field, commander of E field
artillery.
Faculty and staff: Dr. C. W~, Landiss, chairman of the group and a member of the
physical education department; R. G. Perryman of the Fiscal office, S. A. Kerley of the
Basic division and White.
Holder, Bennett, Carl Jobe,
director of Student Publica
tions, and Vol M. (Monty)
Montgomery, head yell leader,
will attend in an “advisory
capacity.”
The Battalion first learned of ac
tion against it following the stu
dent ousting of John Clark, the
junior from Odessa who made
headlines throughout the country,
A group of students escorted Clark
from school after he wrote a
letter to The Battalion criticizing
some Aggie traditions.
The Battalion wrote several ar
ticles and editorials about the John
Clark incident. One editorial ac
cased the administration of “white
washing” the affair.
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Begins
Construction started this morn
ing on the new A&M Consolidated
high school.
Contract for the building was
let to Andrew-Parker of Bryan.
The contract, which includes the
new high school and an all-pur
pose room at Lincoln high school
for Negroes, was for $319,141.08.
The mechanical and electrical
subcontract for* the high school was
let to W. E. Kutzschbach of Bryan.
Kutxschbach was also awarded the
mechanical sub-contract for the
Lincoln building.
The electrical subcontract for
the Lincoln construction was
awarded to Bryan Electi'ic service.
The new high school building
will be divided into three units: the
classroom wing, science wing, and
the asembly-band unit. The admin
istration unit will be on the floor
below the classi’oom wing.
Designed By Caudill
Total heated floor area in the
CHS building will be 28,135 sqtiare
feet. It was designed by Caudill,
Rowlett, Scott and Associates of
Bryan.
“It will be one of the most up to
date school plants in the country,
designed to serve the needs of the
high school pupil and his education
al progi'am,” said Caudill.
Major building materials will be
concrete, steel, wood, brick and
glass.
Floors will be constnicted by the
lift-slab technique. In this process,
o
concerete slabs will be poured on
ground level and lifted in place
with hydraulic jacks. This method
is both quick and ecomonical, Cau
dill said.
Designed Like Office
Designed like an office building,
the school will have movable parti-
itions to meet space changes that
enrollment and curriculum may de
mand.
An integrated heating system
will be used in the building. This
system will be a part of the wall
panels with continous convectors
around the outside walls of the
building.
There will be an auditorium de
signed to seat 600 people during
regular programs. This can be ex
panded to seat 900 for special oc
casions, such as graduation, Cau
dill said.
“A unique arrangement combin
ing the stage and the music suite
allows the regular stage to be ex
panded for as many as 300 per
formers,” he said.
Because of the sloping terrain,
an outdoor social terrace will be
built, protected by the classroom
wing, which serves as the terrace
roof. This will make a shelterd un
loading space for cars and busses.
Movable Cabinets Used
A system of movable cabinets
will be used, allowing each teach
ing space to have storage facilities
(See NEW SCHOOL, Page 2)
Visited Holder
Later three top ranking cadets
visited co-editor Holder in The Bat
talion office. They were Corps
Commander Fi'ed Mitchell, Phillips
and Leonard (Chubby) Eddy, com
mander of the fourth group.
Mitchell and Phillips said that
they were' going to try to have
Holder and Bennett removed from
office. They claimed that the edi
tors had been hurting A&M with
some of their stories and editorials.
They said that they were acting as
members of the Student Life com
mittee and representing the student
body.
Battalion Learned
Then The Battalion learned about
the move to form the publications
and yell leader committees. The
subject had been placed on the Stu
dent Life committee agenda for its
December meeting.
At the meeting White said sev
eral persons had visited him and
were concerned about student pub
lications. Later he admitted that
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