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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 170: Volume 5.3
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 38, 1954
Price Five Cents
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ickets On Sale
For Concert By
Westminsler Choir
Tickets went on sale this week
for the appearance of the West
minster Choir, Town Hall program
Scheduled for next Thursday.
Season ticket holders should ex-
rhange their passes for either a 7
or 9 p.m. performance. Individual
tickets for either performance are
also available for- two dollars each
at the student activities office,
Goodwin hall.
This year marks the illst season
this c.onc< rt group of 40 voices has
been before the concert public.
John Williamson
Choir Director
Crash of CAP
Plane Kills Two
Near Longview
LONGVIEW, Jan. 28—(TP)
A Civil Air Patrol p lane
crashed last night in woods
southwest of Gregg County
airport killing two persons
aboor-d.
The air-port told the Longview
Journal the craft, a 2-place L5
Lightplane, was spotted about 11
p.m. two miles southwest of the
airpor-t.
Bob Reeves, a Civil Aeronautics
Authority man at the airport re
ported the plane was flown by a
CAP pilot, Ray Disharoon, 41, of
Longview, who worked for Lorre
Star Steel Co. The other victim
was identified as Carl Lawrence,
32, also of Longview, on employe
of the Texas Eastman Co.
Reeves said Disharoon and his
companion Irad been oir a tr ip to
nearby Lake Cher-okee and had
dropped by the airport to shoot
night landings. The takeoff was
“abnormal,” Reeves said, and the
plane “went in at an 85 degree an
gle.”
He reported the plane’s'transmit
ter apparently wasn’t working, so
he could not ask the pilot what was
wrorr g.
The plane crashed abolt 10 p.m.
Within an hour- 200 men were
searching the densely wooded area.
Men in the airport control tower-
said they saw the plane hit.
The plane, a “Flying Grasshop
per” or- tire type used in war- for
artillery spotting and other low
level low-speed operations, was re
ported on loan from the Air Force.
It was believed its occupants were
practicing night landings.
Wea th or 7 oday
The Westminster choir was first
organized to serve as the volunteer-
choir of the Westminster Presby
terian church of Dayton, Ohio.
Though the choir retains the
name, it is no longer a chur-ch
choir, but the touring concert unit
of Westminster Choir college in
Princeton, New Jersey. John Fin
ley Williamson, founder and con
ductor of the choir, is also founder
and president of the Westminster
College choir.
Called up on to sing at an in
creasing number of meetings and
gatherings, it was placed under the
direction of a concert manager,
and in 1921 undertook its first
tour.
Since this initial tour, the West
minster- Choir has sung throughout
the United States, Cuba and Can
ada.
The program includes selections
from both classical music and folk
music.
TOWN HALL PERFORMERS—JThe Westminster choir
will appear on the fourth Town Hall program next Thurs
day at 7 and 9 p.m. Tickets are available at the Student
Activities office.
Mol hers March for Polio
To Be Held Tomorrow Nigh l
Tomorrow at 7 p.m. fire whistles,
police sir-ens and church bells will
remind College Station residents to
turn on their- porch lights for the
annual Mothers March of the
March of Dimes.
At that time an army of mothers
will cover every area of Brazos
county for one.hour to receive do
nations for the march of dimes.
“This long-prepared-for-crusade,”
said Mis. John V. Perry, College
Station chairman, “will climax the
current polio fund drive with a
mass appeal to every person iir
the county.”
Residents have been asked to
turn on the porch light, place a
light in the window or even a hand
kerchief on the door as an invita
tion for the contact mother who
will accept the donations.
“All of our workers know the
urgency of the polio fund appeal
if we are to pr-otect our childi’en
from this dread disease,” said Mrs.
Perry.
The A&M Consolidated high
school band will travel ar-ound the
city on a truck at 7 p.m. to help
remind residents of the drive. Mo
bile units of the National Guard
will cruise the area to furnish pro
tection for the marching mothers
and to escort lieutenants and cap
tains.
Mrs. Perry asked families that
are not contacted by 8:30 p.m. to
call the Mothers March headquar
ters, 4-7703, and someone will pick
up their donation.
“We cannot afford to fail now
at' this crucial stage of research
progress to provide funds to con
tinue the scientific campaign
against the disease,” she said.
On the eve of the Mothers March,
Mrs. Perry expressed confidence
that everyone “will show his or- her
concern in the welfare of our boys
and girls by giving genei'ously to
the March of Dimes when a march
er calls.”
Soviets Demand Red China
Be Included In Conference
PARTLY CLOUDY
Cloudy today with occasional
light rain tonight. High yesterday
58. Low this morning- 45.
Father jailed
For Sons Crimes
RICHMOND, Jan. 28—<A>)_For
the first time in Texas history, a
father started serving a jail sen
tence here today for the crimes
his son committed.
County Judge George Roane or
dered Fernando Rodriguez to jail
for six months. The sentence had
been imposed Nov. 30 but was sus
pended on condition that Rodriguez
“exercise proper parental authori
ty” over his son, 8, who repeatedly
had been picked up for law viola
tions.
Rodriquez was one of four fa
thers who received suspended sen
tences at that time.
A new law makes parents re
sponsible for crimes committed by
juveniles. Penalties range up to a
fine of $500 and six months in jail
or both.
County Atty. Arthur Van Slyke
said today the burglary of a barber
shop in Rosenberg by Rodriguez’
son caused the revocation of the
suspended sentence. His son was
charged earlier with theft, bur
glary and arson.
BERLIN — <7P) — Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov held out
glittering hopes of peace and pros
perity to the United States, Britain
and France today—if only they will
meet Communist China as a great
power at the conference table.
His lures to entice the Western
nations into a Big Five confer
ence seemed designed, moreover,
to appeal not so much to their
foreign ministers here as to the
millions of people they represent.
The fourth session of the Berlin
confer-ence today was destined to
hear still more argument on the
China issue, which already had tied
up three sessions even though the
Western ministers repeatedly told
Molotov they would not accept his
proposition.
Molotov was today’s chairman.
He ignored demands yesterday by
U. S. Secretary of State Dulles,
British Fm-eign Seei’etary Eden
and French Foreign Minister Bi-
dault that the confer-ence get on
to the problems of Germany and
Austria.
There was no indication the Rus
sian would change his position to
day while running the meeting.
Western diplomats conceded he
could tie up the conference indef
initely if he chose. They did not
know how soon they would be able
to get to the German and Austrian
problems, which they claim are the
main business at Berlin.
In his speech yesterday, the Sov
iet spokesman did make a bid in
support of East Germany’s Com
munist regime.
He formally presented a letter
from East German Premier Otto
Grotewohl asking that East and
West German representatives join
the conference when German uni
fication is discussed. The Western
Powers already have made known
their refusal to deal in any way
with the German Red regime.
But Molotov’s main purpose was
to set forth what, in his view, a
meeting with Red China next
spring could accomplish.
Teaching Course
To Be Offered
A course in college teaching will
be offered for faculty members and
gj-aduate students this semester.
Administration 601, “College
Teaching,” which carries two hours
of graduate credit will be under
the direction of A. R. Burgess,
head' of the department of indus
trial engineei-ing.
The first meeting of the class
has been scheduled for 4 p.m. next
Thursday in room 207 of the new
engineering building.
It will be conducted as a semi-
nar in effective use of various
teaching methods. The course will
cover all types of teaching method,
evaluation, and teaching aids.
Republicans Favor Rill
S ul rodneed
yeoree
Thieves Make Off
With Police Telephone
BRIDGEPORT, HI—(TP)—Police
ai-e hunting for the thieves who
broke into the town’s police station
and stole the pay telephone. Only
one policeman is on duty at night
and he spends most of his time
patrolling the business district in
the town of some 2,300 residents.
Life Magazine
Lea lures Local
Architect Firm
National honors for an
architectural firm composed
entirely of former A & M
teachers or former students
will he revealed in the Feb. 1 issue
of Life magazine.
A seven-page color section in the
magazine features a low-cost ele
mentary school designed by Caudill,
Rowlett, Scott and Associates, of
Bryan. The firm was commission
ed by Life to design a school plant
that would solve the problem of re
placing overcrowded and worn out
schools at a cost within the reach
of the average school district.
Many of the features of the Life
model school are included in the
A&M Consolidated High school,
now uiider construction. In the
past four years Caudill, Rowlett,
Scott and Associates have designed
and constructed more than 50
schools in Texas and Oklahoma.
By applying' the principles of
geometry to architectural construc
tion a design was developed that
increases usable area yet decreases
volume and wall area, with result
ant construction economies. The
plan abandons the traditional cen
tral hall building, with classroom
cells on each side. It puts halls
to work as teaching space.
William W. Caudill, senior part
ner, came to the A&M Architecture
department in 1939. In recent
years he has been research archi
tect for the Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station. John M. Row
lett, now in chai’ge of the firm’s
Oklahoma City office, is a former
Architecture Department staff
member. A&M background of oth
er associates includes Wallie E.
Scott, ’43 and ’47; William Pena,
’42 and ’48; Thomas A. Bullock,
’49 and former instructor; Earl E.
Merrell, A. M. Martin, J. W. Hall,
all Aggie Exes, and Frank D.
Lawyer, now a part time architec
ture staff member.
Bricker Refuses to Accept
Any Substitute Amendment
W ASHINGTON—(TP)—Senate Republican leaders leaned
toward an alternate proposal by Sen. George (D-Ga.) but
Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) pushed on with his own measure to
limit constitutional treaty powers.
Without giving a final rejection, Bricker turned aside
as unsatisfactory to him in its present form a measure of-
Horse Hits Truck;
Truck Damaged
DETROIT, Jan. 28-v-(/P>—Brownie
is a good horse. He just “gets
frisky when it’s time to go home
for the oats.”
Jimmy Humphrey, 47, a peddler,
testified he yelled “whoa” to
Brownie, but his horse skidded into
a panel truck yesterday. Traffic
Judge John D. Watts placed Hum-
phi'ey on probation for six months.
Damage to the truck: $190.
Humphrey was ordered to pay.
Damage to Brownie: Apparently
none.
“Brownie is a strong horse,”
Humphrey added.
HE SHOT AN ARROW
INTO THE AIR
SEDALIA, Mo.—DP)—A young
archer shot a green willow stick
into the air, and all kinds of trouble
resulted.
Radio Station KDRO was cut off
the air, a third of Sedalia residents
were without electricity and it
took three-quarters of an hour to
get things back to normal.
The willow branch lodged across
the wires of a 12,000 vote feeder
line. Both the stick and the wires
burned as the current shorted
through the green stick.
Twenty-one
Amerieans (»o
To Red China
PANMUNJOM — (TP) —
Twenty-one singing, chanting
Americans and one Briton
who renounced their home
lands to stay with the Com
munists today rolled northward in
flag-bedecked trucks toward a life
behind the Bamboo Curtain.
And in Tokyo, the U.N. Com
mand said officially that at least
9 of the 21 were accused as stool
pigeons who betrayed fellow POWs
to the Communists.
The former Allied soldiers, along
with 325 South Koreans, carried
Red “peace dove” banners as they
marched from their barbed wire
compound in Korea’s bleak neutral
zone.
They sang, cheered and shouted
charges of imperialism and germ
warfare at the Western world as
they boarded big green trucks fox
the trip north.
Five Allied newsmen saw them
go.
An Indian escort took the five
to the pro-Red North Camp for
the last frezied propaganda show
of the men who chose.communism.
Communist correspondents Allan
Winnington and Wilfred Burchett
axa-anged for a few newsmen to
witness the unusual spectacle.
“We were allowed to move freely
in the compound that has held the
pro-Red captives since they were
turned over to Indian custody
Sept. 24,” the Americans said.
Denver Chaplain
Will Speak Here
Dr. Glen Olds, chaplain at the
University of Denver, will speak
at the Wesley foundation at a
meeting at 7:15 p.m. Monday.
“The Christian Witness in the
University” will be Dr. Olds’ sub
ject. He was one of the speakers
at the x'ecent national Methodist
Student confex*ence, and is the au
thor of “The Christian Corrective.”
After Dr. Olds’ talk thex-e will
be a question and discussion pex*-
iod.
He will also be available for
counseling axxd pex’sonal intexwiews
Monday at the Wesley foundation.
MORSE FOR THE BIRDS
DALLAS—(A*)—A Dallas radio
amateur thought for a while that
her ears were playing tricks.
Mr. and Mi's. W. C. Jack have
been impi'oving their Morse code
speed by pi'acticing at home. Then
Mi's. Jack began hearing the code
at odd times when she wasn’t pi’ac-
ticing. The sound seemed to be
coming fi'om outside the house.
It tui'ixed out to be a mocking
bird which apparently thought it
had learned a new song and was
pepping out the “dit-dit-dahs” in
authentic Morse code x’hythm.
fered by George yesterday.
George’s suggested e o rn-
promise would (A) nullify
any future treaties and inter
national agreements that con
flict with the constitution and (B)
provide that executive agreements
other than treaties could become
international law only by act of
Congress.
This was offex-ed as a substitxie
for Bricker’s proposal which, in a
clause opposed vigorously by Pres
ident Eisenhower, says “a tx-eaty
shall become effective as internal
law in the United States only
through legislation which would be
valid in the absence of treaty.”
Eisenhower contends this would
give the states power to repudiate
some treaties. Bricker says that
is not true. George said his pro
posal would eliminate the effect of
the “which” clause.
Sen. Knowland of California, the
GOP floor leader', hurried a draft
of the Georgian’s proposal to the
White House, State and Justice
Departments and was awaiting
replies. George himself said he.
had discxxssed it with Eisenhower
but gave no indication of the Pi'es-
idexxt’s reaction.
Sen. Ferguson of Michigan,
chairman of the GOP Policy Com
mittee, indicated he believes some
slight revisions might make it ac
ceptable to Bricker. But he de
clined to forecast the administi'a-
tion’s final attitude.
Sen. John S. Cooper (R-Ky.)
who is fighting Bricker’s version,
said in an interview that George’s
measux-e “is the best that has been
offered yet.”
As George explained his pro
posal, it would subject internation
al agreements and treaties to
court x'eview on their constitution
ality. Knowland said this section
was acceptable to evei'ybody.
In its second section, the George
proposal would make all interna
tional agreements which touch on
intei'nal laws effective domestic
ally only by vote of both houses
of Congress. This would eliminate
the states from acting on such
agreements, even though they
might alter voting rights, divorce
and other state laws.
Mothers Clubs
Board To Meet
The board meeting of the State
Federation of A&M Mothers clubs
will be held Satux-day at the Memo-
x'ial Student Center.
Officers in attendance will be
Mi's. Gus A. Beckex’, president, Mir-
ando City; vice pi'esidents, Mi’s.
David H. Morgan, College Station;
Mrs. R. M. Harris, San Angelo;
Mrs. J. F. Van Wert, Marshall;
Mrs. B. A. Wulfman, Amarillo,
Mrs. A. H. Lawson, Dallas, Mis.
L. L. Vick, Beaumont; and Mrs.
M. C. Locke, Del Rio.
Other officei's ai'e Mi's. W. W.
Walton, Tyler, x-ecoiding seei’etary;
Mrs. Sam Evans, Mirando City,
cori'esponding seei’etary; Mi’s. Nor
fleet G. Bone, Austin, treasurer;
Mi’s. James Marsh, Orange, parlia
mentarian; and Mrs. M. L. Cashion,
College Station, historian.
UNI Doesn’t Want
MSC to Be MSU
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—<7P)—The
University of Michigan appealed to
the State Legislature today to re
ject a proposal to change Michi
gan State College’s name to Mich
igan State University.
U. of M. President Harlan H.
Hatcher and the regents vigorous
ly objected. They said it would re
sult in “endless confusion.”
Left,—Practice Fire Drill brings students out of the Con
solidated High School as a smoke bomb adds realism to the
scene. Volunteer firemen, above, arrived on the pot in the
coordinated drill. The action was planned by Curtice Bul
lock of the College Station Police Dept. Only three minutes
elapsed from the time the alarm sounded at the school
until the firemen were in the building.