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SARASOTA—College football must keep itp, one-platoon
system and must get rid of such practices as the faked injury
and the sucker shift. This verdict was handed down yes
terday by the Football Rules Committee of the National Col
legia te Athletic Association
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BAI.TIMORE-—A 14-yfear-oid Negro boy who
escaped six times from boys village and once from a
Baltimore police station was held for the grand jury '
yesterday on -$2l-, v @’00 bail on-21 burglary charges.
The youth was charged with stealing $2,400 in mer
chandise and $lj5O0 in cash between July S and
Dec, 29 last year,
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WASHINGTON—The Army was told today it needs two
new major commands and a thorough overhaul of its supply
and training systems to meet the long pull tests of peace,
half-war or another world conflict. A committee composed of
four businessmen and one general also called for strengthen
ing the authority of the secretary of the Army and protecting
it against absorption by the secretary of defense and his
staff,
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NEW YORK—The Port of New York Author
ity, brushing aside Arthur Godfrey’s contention I ha l
a strong cross wind caused his plane to nearly hit
the Teterboro, N..I. Airport control tower, has ac
cused I he radio TV star of careless and reckless liv
ing.
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CAIRO—A high official source said today 168 members
of the Moslem Brotherhood have been arrested in the gov
ernment’s crackdown on the religious-political organization.
President Mohammed Naguib’s government outlawed the
once-powerful brotherhood in Egypt yesterday and launched
a roundup of its leaders.
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AUSTIN—At the present rate of inspection,
nearly two million Texas vehicles will lack safety
stickers April 16. and their owners will run the risk
of court suits. That warning came yesterday from
Public Safety Director Homer Garrison jr.
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LEBANON, Ill.-—A 68-year-old woman collapsed and
died at the bier of her husband in a funeral home here. She
was Mrs. Marmie Feltman, whose 70-year-old husband, a
cemetery sexton, died Monday of heart disease.’ Mrs. Felt-
man’s death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage,
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ROME—A four-engine passenger plane crashed
Today into a heavily populated area of Rome. First
reports said all passengers and crew were killed.
Goode Elected
To Agronomy Post
Kert Goode was elected president
of A&M’s chapter of the American
Society of Agronomy Tuesday.
Other officers elected are Andy
Cuellar, vice president; Earnie En-
loe, secretary; Bill Andrews, treas-
tirer; Jim Altus, parliamentarian;
and Frank Ford, reporter.
Elected for the coming semes
ters, the officers will be initiated
officially at a later date.
Hat I Prints Tsviee
During f inals
The Battalion will cut its
publication days to Tuesday
and Thursday of each week
during the semester examina
tion period and the mid-term
holidays.
Battalion staff members
need time to prepare for their
finals, and there will not be
sufficient help to operate on
the regular schedule, said Carl
Jobe, manager of student pub-
I Rations.
Draft Laws—5
Local Draft Boards
j u dge 1 )ef erm e 11 Is
(Editor’s No(e: This is the
fifth of a series of 10 articles
on the draft laws and how
they affect persons of draft
age.)
On a local draft board is placed
the responsibility, under applic
able laws and regulations, of de
ciding which men should be de-
fei-red because of their civilian
activities.
The three categories of men
considered are: (1) farmers or
farm workers, (2) college or uni
versity students, and (3) men in
industrial and all other civilian
activity.
In the case of students, defer
ment until end of the school year
is ordered by law, if the student is
mailed an order to report for in
duction while he is in school satis
factorily taking a full-time course
of instruction, provided he has
never received such a statutory de
ferment before.
If the student has previously re
ceived such a deferment, then
further deferment is up to the
local board. The board can con
sider information outside the
scholastic as well as scholastic in
formation. The wndely-publicized
draft test for college students can
he ignored by local boards under
draft regulations if the board so
desires. Score on the draft test and
class standing of the student are
provided as information for the
board.
Here are three things the board
considers when it is looking at a
case of possible deferment for
farming or other civilian activity:
(1) Is the man engaged, except
for a seasonal or temporary in
terruption, in the activity? (2)
Can he be replaced by persons
With his qualifications or skills?
(3) Would his removal cause a
material loss of effectiveness in
the activity ? ,
In the case of farmers or farm
workers, the chief question asked
is: Is he employed in the pro
duction for market of a substantial
quantity or. agricultural commodi
ties necessary to maintenance of
national health, safety or interest?
All such deferments are for
limited periods.
NEW JOB—Mrs. Barbara
Rubin, Battalion society
editor, has been named as
sistant manager of student
publications, replacing Bill
Turner, who left yesterday
to go on active duty with
the navy. Her new job will
consist of handling adver
tising for The Battalion.
She will continue to write
women’s news.
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieiand), TBaASTTIUBSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1954
Price Five Cents
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Developed Jet
Ex-Aggie Wins
Cottier
By JAMES VV. EITEL.
•• Battalion Staff Writer
Leonard S. Hobbs ’16, has re
ceived the EoBier Trophy for out
standing accomplishments in the
field- of aviation.
The trophy, donated in 1911 by
the late Robert J. Collier, son of
the foundei’ of Collier’s Magazine,
is awarded annually for “The
greatest achievment in aviation in
America, the value of which has
been demonstrated by actual use
during the pi*eceding year.”
A miniature of the original tro
phy was presented to Hobbs by
President Eisenhower at a dinner
in Washington, D. C., on Dec. 17,
50th anniversary of man’s first
powered flight, by the Wright
brothers at Kitty Hawk.
For S-57 Jet
Hobbs, United Aircraft’s vice-
president for engineering, will re
ceive the award for his efforts in
the development of the new J-57
jet engine. This engine represents
a marked advance in the jet engine
field and is being counted on heavi
ly as a power source for some of
the fastest present and proposed
planes.
These include the North Ameri
can Super Sabre, the McDonnell
F-101, the delta winged Convair
F-102, and the Boeing B-52. The
navy will use the J-57 in its new
Douglas F4D Skyi-ay and the
Douglas A3D, a carrier - based
bomber.
Most Powerful
The engine is the most power
ful aircraft plant in the world. It
was used to power the jet fighter
that flashed over the flat sand
bed at Salton Sea, Cal., last Octo
ber at 754.98 miles per hour. The
engine is capable of tuiming out
the equivalent of 40,000 horse-
powei’, one fifth as much as the
total power output of the 83,673-
Trophy
ton Queen Elizabeth ocean liner.
It was in 1946 that the idea of
the J-57 began to form in the
mind of “Luke” Hobbs. Pratt &
Whitney, the aircraft division of
United Aircraft, was five years
behind other companies and some
of them could draw on five years
of steam-turbine experience, while
P&W had hone.
“We were running a poor race
and decided it would not even be
enough to match their designs. If
we wanted to get back in, the race
we would have to ‘leapfrog’ them-
come up with something far in ad
vance of what they were think
ing about,” Hobbs said. That is
how the J-57 was conceived.
Plans Design
Hobbs decided to design an
engine with 10,000-pound thrust,
enough to permit supersonic flight
for giant bombers and fighters,
and to build into it the lowest rate
of fuel consumption possible. This
would whip the jet plane’s buga
boo of limited range.
Hobbs also decided to use what
is known as the dual-compression
system. The rest of the story is of
painstaking research and trial and
error. More than 4,000,000 in
dividual complex problems had to
be solved. The first engine was no
good but Hobbs and his assistants
learned and put new ideas to work.
As a result the J-57 was developed.
Born fifty-seven years ago in
Carbon, Wy., Hobbs spent his boy
hood in Texas and graduated from
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MARCH Of DIMES
janugry 2 to 31
Honor
gineers
Turf Meeting
Wil l Discuss
Four "Topics
Four main topics on turf
care wil be discussed on the
program of the annual Texas
Turf conference here Jan.
18 — 20.
Theme of this year’s conference
will be the conservation and use
of water, and water’s part in re
lation to the pi'oduction of good
grass.
The first two topics for discus
sion will be on Bermuda grass and
Bent grass golf courses. Park and
cemetery turfs will be the third
topic, and the fourth topic will be
on turfs for athletic fields and play
areas.
Marvin H. Ferguson of the
agromomy department will plan
the program. “We are expecting
around 130 to attend this year,” he
said.
Out - of - state speakers include
R. M. Hagan, irrigation specialist
at. the University of California;
John Derrah of the W. A. Clary
Corp., Chicago; Ill.; O. J. Noer of
the City Sewerage commission,
Milwaukee, Wis; J. R. Watson, jr.
of the Toro Manufacturing com
pany, Minneapolis, Minn.; and W.
E. Zimmerman, of the Cyanamid
company, Bloomfield, N. Y.
New Plan! Offers
Part-Time Work
The rubber plant opening soon
in Bryan will offer part time work
to chemical, 'industrial and me
chanical engineering students, said
W. R. Horsley, placement officer
director.
All undergraduate students will
work in either the factory or lab
oratory, he said. Students would
work a minimum of four hours a
day under tentative plans.
Opening in approximately 60
days to make rubber soles for
shoes, the plant is operated by the
International Shoe Co.
Three Aggie-Exes
Train at Ft. Bliss
, Three former students recently
began eight weeks of basic ti*ain-
ing in the anti aircraft artillery re
placement training center at Ft.
Bliss.
They are Pvt. Jerome W. John
ston of San Antonio, Pvt. Leland
Merle Cox of Ci’osebeck, and Pvt.
Joe R. Brown of Breckenridge.
! All will spend their first eight
weeks of training learning funda
mental infantry subjects. They will
then take training in some anny
technical skill.
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More Student Approval
A modified honoi’ code will be used next semester in the
School of Engineering.
The modified code was approved by the student Engi- .
neering council at their last meeting.
“The code will be used in any class that approves it by a
secret ballot from the class, including the teacher,” said H.
W. Barlow, dean of engineering. The vote must be unanimous.
One of the changes the Engineering council passed was
the wording of the honor pledge. The new pledge reads, “1
pledge, on my honor, that in this class I will not cheat, nor
steal, nor will I condone them.”
Each student in the classes that adopt the system will
‘sign the pledge. It will be up
to each class to deal with
cases of scholastic dishonesty,
Barlow said.
“The council felt this code
is as simple as one can make it,”
he said. “The council felt that this
simple appeal will make the code
desirable to more students.”
Can 7 Make
A Mistake
Thai Way
Weather forecasting in the
Bj - yan-College Station area is
becoming increasingly easy.
When contacted by The Bat
talion yesterday, the weather
man at Eastei’wood airport
said, “It will either he warmer
or. colder tomorrow.”
He was right.
Many students voted against the
honor code last year because they
didn’t understand certain things
about it, said Barlow.
Thirty-one per cent of all the
engineering classes this semester
adopted the honor code proposed
last year. Barlow said the council
was pleased with the response to
the honor system.
A&IVI Senior Rings
Will Re Sold Soon
Senior ring orders will be ac
cepted after Feb. 9 at the ring
clex-k’s office in the new Admini
stration building.
The office will be open from 8
a. m. until noon, Tuesday through
Saturday, said Mrs. Dell Baler,
ring clerk.
The rings will be ready for dis
tribution by April 3, she said.
Ordered from Balfour Jewelers,
lings are available in four weights:
large, $29.84; medium, 27.80; light,
$25.76; and minature, $22.08.
The rings are available in nat
ural color or two degrees of
blackness. Cash must be paid upon
ordering, Mrs. Bauer said.
“It is an indication of the pro
fessional attitude of The engineer
ing students,” he said. “The
foundation of a professional man
is his personal integrity.”
Barlow explained that the coun
cil was not planning to ask the
whole college to adopt the system
revised by the council. However, he
said anyone who would like to use
the system can do so.
“I think we are gradually work
ing toward a school-wide honor
code,” Barlow said. “We are try
ing various plans now to see which
one works best.”
Executive Course
Opens Here Soon
The Ring committee will meet
after mid-term to determine when
students becoming seniors at the
end of the spi'ing semester may
oi*der their rings, she said.
CS Rank Damaged
Ry Fire Yesterday
Slight damage was caused yes
terday afternoon by a fire in the
College Station State Bank.
The fire apparently started
around a flue in the ceiling, near
the heating system. It occurred
about 1:45 p. m.
After the fire was discovered,
employes in the bank poured
buckets of water on it until the
fire department arrived. Cause of
the fire was undertermined.
An Executive Development
course for selected representatives
of southern industries will be held
Jan. 31 to Feb. 20 in the Memorial
Student Center.
The course is limited to 25 mem
bers to make group discussions
easier, said Dr. F. C. Bolton, presi
dent emeritus.
The program consists of 45-50
minute talks by discussion leaders
and gi'oup discussion the rest of
each day.
The discussion leaders were
selected on the basis of earned
reputation as authorities in their
field, Bolton said.
Business organization policies,
business conditions and measure
ment, financing, distribution, mar
keting, and public and employee re
lations will be covered in the
course, he said.
Dormitory Theft
Trotter Announces
i Graduate Positions
Graduate fellowships and assist-
antships are available in the var
ious fields of agriculture, biological
science, engineering, physical sci
ence and social science, Dean Ide
P. Trotter of the graduate school
has announced.
“Prospective candidates are in
vited to correspond with the head
of the department in their field of
major study for detailed informa
tion on positions available and fa
cilities for graduate study,” Dean
Trotter says.
A graduate fellow devotes full
time to study and research. The
stipend varies with the appoint
ment.
All graduate assistants, doing
half-time service, may carry a
maximum of 12 semester hours of
academic work.
Graduate teaching assistants re
ceive $1,200 for nine months dur
ing their first year. After satis
factorily completing two semesters
of a graduate program, they may
receive $1,350 for nine months.
Research assistants are available
to properly qualified students in a
wide variety of fields. These are
usually 12 month appointments for
$1,500 upward.
A veteran may hold a fellowship
or an assistantship and also qualify
for full veteran’s benefits.
Weather Today
CLOUDY
Cloudy to partly cloudy and con
tinued fog and light drizzle and
rain today, tonight and tomorrow.
High yesterday 45. Low this
morning 39.
Remains Unsolved
No new leads have developed on
the Mitchell hall robbery case, ac
cording to Fred Hickman, chief of
campus security.
Last Nov. 4, about 3:30 a. m.,
$73 was taken from seven rooms
on the second floor of Mitchell
hall.
Before it was discovered that
the money was gone a stranger
was found in one of the rooms.
He said he was looking for some
one and was not held.
Hickman does not know for sure
if the men who saw the stranger
can identify him.
No special men are working on
the case, but Hickman says that
his office “is always watching for
new leads on any case.”
Engineers Plan
Scholarship Fund
The student Engineering council
is planning to award a scholar
ship for a student majoring in
engineering.
“The council has saved $1,250
over a number of years,” said H.
W. Barlow, dean of engineering.
“This amount has been invested,
and all income from it will be used
for a scholarship for some worthy
student.”
No details for the plan have been
worked out by the council, he said.