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Number 371 : Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1954
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To Lower Age
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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.