The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 08, 1954, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 08, 1954, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextD. B. COFFER COLLEGE Circulated DSiffv FE To 90 Per C<?nf 0I>IES Of Local Residents on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 371 : Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1954 Price Five Cents grass To Lower Age _ _ o tor Voting WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (/P) Constitutional amendments to lower the voting age to 18 introduced in both houses of Congress today, close on the hop)s of President Eisenhower’s 3'equest for the action. Se7i. Knowland of California, re publican leader of the Senate, of fered a measure which won the emmediate endorsement of five other senators from both parties. Since the Constitution does not set forth the qualifications of vot- ers, this matter has been left to the “reserved powers” of the states. Forty-seven states require vote7‘S to be 21, but Georgia has permitted 18-yea7*-olds to vole since 1944. A constitutional amend7nent, i passed by a two-thirds majority o Congress a7id approved by t.hree- fou7'ths of the states, would estab lish on a nation-wide basis the right of young me77 and wo7ue77 to cast a ballot upon reaching the age of 18. Eisenhower devoted a paragraph to the problem in his State of the Union message to Congres today. “For years our citize77s between the ages of 18 and 21 have, in time of pe7il, been summoned to fight for America,” the President said. “They should participate in the political proces that produces this fateful summons. I urge Congress to propose to the states a const! tutional amendment permitting citizens to vote when they reach the age of 18.” WHERE IS IT?—Betsy Burchard, left, and Mary Lou Lloyd, A&M Consolidated high school students, try out the new paper vending machine that has been installed at CHS. a pencil vending machine has also been installed at the school. Football Most Popular Ramsey Busy By BOB MAYO Battalion Staff Writer Pirblie interest in A&M sports, both current and past, keeps Jones Ramsey and two full-time seci'e- tarles busy. They answer requests for information and make it easier for on-the-scene sports coverage by Visiting writers. When spoils writer's and an nouncers converge on Kyle Field to cover, a game, Ramsey is their host in the pi-ess box. And he gets the request if an Aggie overseas needs statistics to bolster an argument or win a bet on A&M sports events of the past. Ramsey is sports news editor for the college information office. A native of Ranger, he was reared in Ronca City, Okla. and came to A&M in August, 1952, from Still water, Okla. He was news editor 1 of the Stillwater Daily News-Press. He is married and has three chil dren. “What I like most about my job is wor'king with sports writers”, he said. “They are lively people and when two or three get to gether there’s never a shortage of good sports stories.” The history of A&M’s athletics Associate Justice Wilson Associate Justice To Speak Monday Texas Supreme Court Associate Justice Will Wilsoir will speak on Texas’ disciplinar-y system at 7:45 p, m. Monday in the YMCA chapel. Wilson was one of five district attorneys selected frem the entii’e nation by the U. S. Attorney Gen eral to advise the National Con ference on Organized Clime held in 1950. He is one of the youngest men ever to serve on that court. is recorded hi files in Ra7nsey’s office in the System A^mmstra- - tion building. And he says he needs a lot of i'eco7'ds to find t he informa tion he is asked fo7‘. Statistics of ga7nes, biog7’aphic data on athletes, i'eco7 , ds cureently held by A&M and 7*ecords held m the past are the subject of most of the inquiries. “We wei'e swamped with re quests about Buddy Davis and Darrow Hooper. Many of them ca7ne from track-minded England and Scotland. Special brochures were prepared on each of them,” he said. Ramsey gets out brochures on teams and statistics on past sea sons for distribution to newspapers and radio stations before a season starts. Preparing the football Imoehure takes all smiimer. “Our budget does not permit us to dist7-ibute these booklets to iri- dividuals until all news reporting agencies have been supplied,” he said. Football takes 7nost of Ramsey’s time. Requests received in the information office show that foot ball is more popular than base- Rifle Team Sets Citadel Match The A&M Rifle team will meet The Citadel in Chai'lesto77, S. C. Feb. 13. The team has begun firing for the fourth a7-my area postal matches, which must be complet ed by Feb. 15. All ROTC units in the fourth army area are compet ing. A match with Virginia Military institute has been scheduled here Ma7’ch 27. The date for the South west Invitational matches j7i El Paso has not yet been set. Capt. Thomas H. Libby is ma7i- age7- of the 25-man tea777, a7id Sgt. J0I771 P. Collins of the air force is team coach. The A&M team has defeated all Southwest conference tea77is this year. ball and track. The office does a lot 7nore business whe7i Aggie teams are winning, too. Ramsey writes up home basket ball ga7ues fo7- the Associated P7'ess a7id other wii’e services. Special spoi’ts writers cover the basketball games only if we have a whining team late in the season. But all football games are covered by sports writers frenn the wire services and the leading news papers. The 7naili77g list for special write-ups includes all the news papers and radio stations in Texas, plus the hometown papers of the out-of-state team members. Democrats Plan Offense On Some Eisenhower Proposals SLC Will Hear Committee Reports The Student Life co7nmittee will meet Monday night to hear 7-epo7 - ts f7T>m its subcommittees, including the subcommittee to study the need for a standing committee on stu dent publications and yell leaders. The SLC will also }7ea7• reports 07) the student-faculty 7'elations p7 , ogram and the results of the Twelfth Man bowl. Club I Vesi dents 1 lear Plans Cor Hi School Hay Presidents or representa tives from 65 hometown clubs met yesterday in Goodwin hall to discuss plans for the an nual High School day held here each year. The group met with W. O. (Pete) Hardesty, student activities bus iness manager to learn what is planned for High School day. “The pui’pose of High School day is to invite prospective high school students to the campus for a weekend so they can get an idea of what A&M is like,” Hardesty said. “It is 7iot a recruiting atte7upt to increase our numbers tmt an at- te7npt to interest those boys who want a good education and would like to attend A&M.” High School day is sponsoi'ed by student activities, with hometown clubs acting as hosts. Transporta tion is provided for by ex-stude77ts a77d e7itertainment ts furnished by the “T” association. While he7’e, the high school stu dents will live i77 the do7*7uitories, tour the campus, and atte7id the events of Spo7'ts day as guests of the “T” associatiori. All the stu dent has to provide is money fo7’ meals.. After the discussion of the pur pose of High School day, forms were given to the men present to be filled out and turned in to Hard esty at Stude7it Activities after the semester holidays. Draft Laws—2 Local Board Sets Draft Classification (Editor’s note: This is the seco7id of a series of ten arti cles explaining the draft laws and how they affect men of draft age.) It is a local draft board’s res ponsibility, under law and regula tions, to decide, subject to appeal, the class in which each man re gistered with it shall be placed. Each registrant is considered as available for militai'y service until his eligibility for deferment or exemption from militai’y service is clearly established to the satis faction of the local board. Room Reservation Payable Tuesday Fees reseiwing rooms for next semester will be taken at the hous ing office beginning Tuesday morn ing. Details of procedure will he an nounced in a memorandum released before Tuesday, the housing office announced. ’ Students should pay their fees and reserve their rooms for next semester as soon as possible, in oi’der to be assured they get their same room, said Harry Boyei', chief of housing. — Weather Today CLOUDY Partly cloudy today with in creasing cloudiness tonight. Some what cooler and clearing tomorrow 7 . High yesterday 71. Low’ this morn- ing 51. _______ The board is obligated to receive all pei'tinent information on classi fication presented to it, says Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield, state d7'aft director. Mailing by the local board of a classification questionnaire to the latest address fuTmished by a re gistrant is notice to the registrant that he will be classified in I-A, unles information is presented to the local board, within the time specified for return of the ques- tionnaii’e, which will justify his de ferment or exemption. Unless the local board gives him added time, the registrant must return the questionnare filled out within ten days fi'om date it was mailed. “In clasifying a i , egist7ant thei'e shall be no discrhnination for or agamst him because of his I’ace, creed, or color, or because of his membership or activity hi a7iy labor, political, religious, or other 07'ganizatio77. Each such registrant shall receive equal justice.” A&M To Graduate 261 at Mid-Ter m Thei’e will be no graduation exer cises for the 261 candidates for de- gi’ees at midtei’m. In the advanced degrees there is one candidate each for a master of agriculture, business administra tion and engineei’ing, two in edu cation and 22 for a master of science. In the candidates for bac- calaui'eate degrees there are 99 in School of Engineei’ing, 77 in School of agriculture and 58 in the School of Arts and Science. The subcommittee to study the need for the publications and yell leader committees voted Wednes day to recommend a standing com mittee on yell leaders, but decided to wait until fui’ther study to re commend membership and duties for this committee. The subcommittee was undecid ed, aftei* moi’e than two hours of discussion, on whether or not to recommend a standing committee for student publications. They will meet again early next month to again discuss the publi cations committee and the mem- bei’ship and duties of the yell lead ers committee. The subcommittee is composed of four students and four staff and faculty members. Students are Carroll Phillips, T. B. Field, Doyle Lowery and Bill Henderson. Faculty and staff members are C. G. (Spike) White, C. W. Landiss, chairman, S, A, Kerley and R, G. Perryman. Battalion co-editors Jerry Ben nett a7id Ed Holder, publications manager Carl Jobe and head yell leader V. M. (Monty) Montgo mery attended the meeting in an advisory capacity. No Games Set In New Gym This Year There pi’obably won’t be any varsity basketball ga7Ties in the new gym this year. The reason, accoi’ding to C. E. Tishler of the physical edu cation department, is the poor attendance at the varsity games so far this .year. “We actually don’t need to use the new gym because there have been no large attendances at previous games,” he said. The new structure will pro bably be completed by March 1. As yet, no dedication plans have been made. Pistol Team Bows To 01.1326-1320 The A&M pistol team last week lost to the University of Oklahoma, 1326-1320, at Norman, Okla. The Cadets have lost thi'ee meets by a total of 22 points. They pre viously had bowed to the Univer sity of Washington and Colorado School of Mines. Before Jan. 16, postal inatches will be fired with the Coach Guard academy, Michigan State college and Colorado School of Mines. In postal matches, each team mails its scoi'e to its opponent. The team also has been entered in the National Rifle association postal matches and the U. S. Re volver association intercollegiate match. Frank Noiwell is the team cap tain, and Toby Chandler is the secretary. The Aggie coach is Lt. Randolph Phillips, who is assisted by Sgt. R. C. Cox. Team members are Jimmy Arledge, Neal Cameron, D. B. Conkling, G. B. Fields, Gil Hem’y, Claude Heslip, Melvin Longhbfer, Dave McCane, Joe Ma7’tinez, A. W. Perry, Geoi’ge Sturgis, J. E. Ward, Norvell a7id Chandler. Pres iden t’s Message Gets Mixed Reaction WASHINGTON—(iP) — Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said today Senate Democrats—who out number Republicans by one—will exercise a “veto” power on individual items of President Eisenhower’s over-all leg islative program. And Sen. Byrd (D-Va), who gave indirect support to the President in the 1952 political campaign, said he will try to stamp the first Congressional veto on Eisenhower’s re quest for an increase in the 275 billion dollar debt limit. The President renewed it when he outlined his program yester day to Congress. While Republican leader Knowland of California was urging bipartisan support for+ what he called the President’s “sound and forward—looking program.” Democrats were gathering their ammunition for a blast at the administ7’atio77’s* 7iew farm proposals—due Monday. As reactio77 rolled hi 077 the Pres ident’s 7,000 wo7’d state of the unio7i mesage — which he deliv ered m 54 mmutes yesterday 771 a House chamber so jammed that some Senators complained they had to stand—controversies flared up over several issues. Besides the farm and debt limit proposals, lawmakers voiced sharp differences of opinion over tax re visions heavier reliance on atom ic weapons, a plan to take citizen ship away from those convicted of conspiring hereafter to overthrow the government by force, and a proposed Constitutional amend ment to pei’mit 18-year-olds to vote. This added up to a major seg ment of a program that some Dem ocrats took delight in describing as “New Dealish.” One of these, Sen, Lehman (D- Lib-NY~) said in a statement he was “gi'atified indeed to note that the President has accepted and endorsed the basic objectives of both the New Deal a7id the Fair Deal, namely, the 7’espo7isibilities of gove7'nme77t for the p7’osperity and welfa7'e of the individual cit- zen.” This was an allusion to Eisen hower’s proposals for expanding social security coverage, advance plamiing for public works, federal i-einsui’ance for health plans, ex- (See STATE OF UNION, Page 2) Flynn, de Havilland Star Tonight in Film The A&M Film Society will show “They Died with Their Boots On” tonight at 7:30 in the Memorial Student center ballroom. “Two Ano77ymous Letters,” a7i Italian movie will be shown at the same ti?ne and place 071 Monday. Eonight’s film stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. New TV ^ €an lieeeive 2 Shows at NEW YORK—UP) — Engi neers Thursday demonstrated a new device which makes it possible to see and hear two different television programs on the same receiver simultaneous ly- T h e manufacturer suggested that the invention could solve a recurrent family crisis by allow ing adults to view their choice of programs while the children watch another. Called “Duoscopic Receiver” The device, called the “duoscop ic receiver” was introduced by the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc. The duoscopic receiver can tune in a77-y two TV progi’a7ns simulta neously. To the naked eye, the prog7’a7ns appear supei’imposed. By wearmg special Polaroid glass es, a viewer sees o7ily one of the programs. The othe7' p7’ogra77i is filtered out by the glasses. By reyel’sing the glasses, the viewers see t h e other p7'og7’am. Sounds from the sep'a7 , ate programs are channeled to the individual viewers by means of earphones — or “ea7’pieces” as the manufacturer prefe7’s to call them, shice. they are small and cling to the ear something like a hea7’ing aid. Eight Earpieces Each set comes with eight ear pieces, pe7'mitting a la7’ge audie77ce. DuMont hopes the set will even tually cost about $600, but those who are impatient will have to pay about $2,000 for the first, hand made sets. Range Managers Meet Wednesday The annual meeting of the Texas section of the American Society of Range Management will be held here Wednesday. This is the first time the group, composed of ranchers, farmers, technicians and anyone interested in grass and grassland manage ment, has met here. G. W. Thomas of the range and forestry department is program chairman for the meeting. The group will tour the range and fore stry department as a part of their l meeting. ON THE GREEN—Sunny weather brings out Don Alexan der of the mathematics department, to practice putting on the A&M course. Two new greens have been added to the golf course for putting and chipping practice.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 08, 1954, Image 1

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