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Number 180: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1954
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Ch ief Econ om is l
To Speak To
Young Executives
Gerhardt Colm, chief economist
of the National Planning Associa
tion in Washington, will speak on
“Trends in American Economy” to
night in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Assembly room.
Colm is one of the several guest
speakers scheduled to appear be
fore 25 southwest industrial re
presentatives enrolled here in an
Executive Development course. His
speech, which will be open to the
public, starts at 7:30 p. m.
Ends Feb. 20
Tndustrialsts attending the
course, which ends Feb. 20, regist
ered on Sunday afternoon. Presi
dent David H. Morgan gave the
Welcoming address.
A group of top ranking industri
al executives has been selected to
lecture during the course. Chancel
lor M. T. Harrington is president of
Commencement
Speaker to Be
Ft. Worth Man
Dr. Gaston Foote, pastor of
the First Methodist church
of Fort Worth, will be bac-
calureate speaker at the com
mencement exercises here
May 21.
Foote’s address will be given the
Snorning of May 21. Degrees will
he awarded the night of May 21.
Foote received his MA and BA
degrees from Southern Methodist
university. He received a Doctor of
Theology degree from the Univer
sity of Denver and he holds two
honorary degrees, one from Miami
university and one from Wilber-
force university.
He has been pastor of churches
in Amarillo, Little Bock, Ark.;
Montgomery, Ala.; and Dayton,
Ohio.
the committee which selected the
speakers. Dr. F. C. Bolton, presi
dent- emeritus of the college is
director of the committee.
A&M personnel who will take an
active part in thfe discussions in
clude E. L. Williams, vice-director,
Texas Engineering Extension ser
vice; E. D. Hedgcock, professor of
English; A. J. Kingston Jr., as
sociate professor of psychology and
director of remedial reading; R. M.
Stevenson, professor of account
ing.
Associate Professor
T. R. Yantis, associate profes
sor of marketing; T. W. Leland,
head of fhe business administra
tion department; S. T. Keim, as
sociate professor of business ad
ministration; T. R. Hamilton, pro
fessor of business administration;
and R. L. Elkins, professor of per
sonnel management.
The Advisory committee is com
posed of J. B. Thomas, president,
Texas Electric Service, Ft. Worth;
Clint Murchison sr., Dallas; Ken
neth Bowen, Celanese Corp. of
American, Corpus Christi; M. A.
Abernathy, vice-president, United
Gas Co., Shreveport.
Cotton Belt
H. J. McKenzie, president, Col
ton Belt Railroad, St. Louis; John
W. Newton, vice-president, refin
ing division, Magnolia Petroleum
Company, Beaumont; Lamar Flem
ing Jr., president, Anderson, Clay
ton and Company, Houston.
Burned Student Given
50-50 Chance to Live
Another Aggie Dies
In Holiday Car Crash
Westminster Choir
Town Hall Planned
Thursday in Guion
Tickets are now available for the unit of the Westminster college
Aggie-Exes
Help Koreans
Two 1952 A&M graduates
are helping build a village for
Korean orphans made home
less by a fire in Pusan.
The men, second Lts. John
E. May and Jack C. Milligan,
are working on a project that
includes building a six-unit
village for 120 orphans.
Both are with the 24th di
vision’s 63rd field artillery
battalion. The battalion adopt
ed the orphans after the fire,
and started the housing pro
ject, named “Operation
Haven.”
Westminster choir Town Hall per
formance Thursday in Guion hall.
Season ticket holders should ob
tain either a ticket for the 7 or 9
p. m. performance of the choir at
the Student Activities office.
Individual tickets may be ob
tained at the student activities of
fice for $2 each.
This is the 31st season the choir
has given public performances. It
was first organized as the volun
teer choir at the Westminster
Presbyterian church in Dayton,
Ohio.
While it retains the name of the
church, the choir is no longer a
church choh\ It is now the touring
choir of Princeton, N. J.
John Finley Williamson, director
of the choir and its founder, is also
Draft Laws - 8
Board Must Allow
Personal Interview
DR. GASTON FOOTE
Baccalaureate Speaker
Foote has written several books,
including “Keys to Conquest”,
“Just Plain Bread”, “Lamps With
out Oil,” and “The words of Jesus
from the Cross.”
He is a member of the Kiwanis
club, the Masons, the Fort Worth
club and the Executive club.
The inauguration of President
David H. Morgan will also be at
commencement time. Further de
tails of the commencement and in
auguration will be announced later,
according to Dean W. H. Dela-
(Editors note: This is the
eighth of a series of 10 articles
on the draft laws and how they
effect persons of draft age.)
Every man registered with a
draft board, after his classification
is determined by the board, bust
have an opportunity to appear in
person before the member or mem
bers of the board designated for
the purpose, provided he files a
written request within 10 days
after the board has mailed him a
notice of classification.
Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield,
state draft director, points to an
exception: the registered man can
not request a personal appearance
after a classification which is the
result of a personal appearance.
No person other than the re
gistered man shall have the right
to appear in person before the local
board. But the local board may
permit any person to appear be
fore it with or on behalf of a re
gistrant, except that no registrant
may be represented before the
board by anyone acting as attorney
or legal counsel.
The registrant may bring an in
terpreter with him if he does not
speak English adequately.
MSC Club Rooms
Soon Available
Student clubs that wish to hold
meetings in the Memorial Student
Center this semester may make
room reservations starting tomor
row morning.
Reservations can be made at the
office of Miss Ann Hilliard, MSC
social director. The office is locat-
plane, chairman of the convocation I ed next to the MSC main lobby
committee. I desk.
The system of two perform
ances for each Town Hall pre
sentation has given married
students and their wives a
chance to beat the baby sitter
situation.
Many couples are getting
one ticket for each perform
ance, with the husband going
to one and the wife to the
other.
That way, there’s someone
at home with the baby all the
time.
News Briefs
When he appears, the registrant
may discuss his classification, di
rect attention to other classes in
which he thinks he should be plac
ed, point out information in his file
which he believes has been over
looked or which he believes has not
received serious enough considera
tion, or any other information.
Such information must either be
in writing, or oral and summarized
in writing. In either case, the in
formation is placed in the man’s
file.
Regulations provide that the
local board, or members hear
ing the case may impose such
limitations upon the time which
the registrant may have for his
appearance as they deem necessary.
After a registrant is heard, the
local board may determine to re
open the case or not reopen it, be
ing guided by information received
in the appearance. The registrant
must be advised by notice of classi
fication in either case.
founder and president of the West
minster college choir.
Since its first tour in 1921, the
choir has given concerts through
out North America and in Cuba.
The choir’s program includes
both classical and folk music.
A selection by Mozart will open
the program followed by music by
Bach, Grieg and Handel.
Several Negro spirituals and
some American Indian music will
characterize the section of the
program dealing with folk music.
JULES VIEAUX will present a
paper on “Problems in Africa” at
the next meeting of the Junto club,
Feb. 9 in the social room of the
Memorial Student Center.
# * *
J. P. ABBOTT, dean of the col
lege, spoke last night at the Port
Arthur A&M club in Port Arthm*.
He returned this morning and will
be at the weekly meeting of the
executive council this afternoon.
>Y- *
THE SINGING CADETS will
present a concert at the Beaumont
city auditorium at 8 p. m. Feb. 6.
The Beaumont A&M club is spon
soring the concert.
Court Sentences
AW0L Freshman
The Senior court tried last night
A Co. freshman Kenneth D. Ross
from the Panama Canal Zone for
being absent from the college with
out leave.
Pleading guilty, Ross was charg
ed with “leaving the campus with
out a pass and without previous
notification of any cadet officer or
non-com in his military organi
zation.”
The court has recommended to
the commandant that Ross be cam-
pused until Easter, given eight
hours extra duty, and receive an
official reprimand with a copy to
be sent to his parents.
Under college regulations, Ross
has 36 hours to appeal the recom
mended sentence if he so desires.
Architect Show
Planned Here
A showing of the works of
Osmundson and Staley, landscape
architects of San Francisco, will be
held in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Feb. 5.
Seventy color slides of comtem-
porary-style gardens will be nar
rated by Robert F. White of the
floriculture and landscape architec
ture department.
The floriculture and landscape
architecture department is sponsor
ing the show, which is open to the
public.
HUMAN DYNAMO
JACKSON, Tenn. — (A 5 ) — Frank
Walker favors a 30-hour day. Then
he could squeeze in another job
or two.
Twenty seven-year-old Walker
holds down four jobs now.
Daytime, he drives the Holland
department store delivery truck.
Late afternoons, he cleans up the
business offices on the second floor
of the Holland building. Then he
dashes over to the Western Union
office for another cleanup job.
After dinner, Walker reports to
a drive-in where he’s a car-hop.
Incentive? He wants to buy a
home for his wife and two children.
ThreePromoted
In Battalion
Editorial Posts
Jerry Wizig, Jerry Estes
and Bob Boriskie have been
promoted in editorial posi
tions on The Battalion, Co-
Editors Jerry Bennett and
Ed Holder said today.
Wizig has been promoted to
Sports Editor to replace Boriskie
who has taken over as News Edi
tor with Estes.
A junior journalism major from
Waco, Wizig has worked on The
Battalion since his freshman year.
He is a member of the Journalism
club and the Waco-McLennan coun
ty club and is associate sports edi
tor of the Aggieland.
Boriskie, a World War II vet
eran on temporary retirement
from the navy, is a resident of
Bryan. He has worked on The
Battalion for two years, and now
is a junior.
Boriskie is married and has two
boys, Teddie Lynn, five, and Mich
ael, five months. He is a member
of the Journalism club, secretary of
the film society, sports editor of
The Aggieland, and served as man
aging editor of The Battalion last
mmer.
Estes, from Wichita Falls, is a
junior major in journalism. He
recently married Nelda Ireland of
Wichita Falls and they now are
living in College Station.
A member of the Journalism
club, Estes has worked on The
Battalion two years and has served
on The Commentator staff. He is
this year’s secretary of the South
west Journalism Congress.
Silver taps will be held 'at 10:30 tonight for an A&M
student killed in a holiday car wreck, while in a New Orleans
hospital another Aggie lies fighting for his life.
Dead is Charles Biff Samford, 23-year-old student who
was killed Jan. 22 when he lost control of the pickup truck
he was driving and crashed into a tree. The accident hap
pened 10 miles east of Corrigan on Woodville Highway.
Given a 50-50 chance to live in the New Orleans Charity
Hospital after a truck explosion, is Gene Edward Brady, 18-
year-old Sqcl. 18 freshman.
The Dean of Men’s office was awaiting word this morn
ing from New Orleans which will tell how much blood
f the student has used or still needs
for transfusions. As soon as the
message arrives, college officials
will call the Waco blood bank and
blood will be rushed by air expi’ess
to New Orleans, a spokesman for
the Dean of Men’s office said.
He explained the blood will be
used to replace that already given
Br’ady in New Orleans or it will be
given to the student if he needs it.
The spokesman said it was report
ed that the badly burned student
had already received blood trans
fusions.
Injured Thursday
The Associated Press reported
last night that Brady was injured
Thursday night about 20 miles
west of New Orleans on U.S. High
way 61. The boy’s father said the
truck young Brady was driving
“just blew up.”
The student lost control and the
truck turned over and caught fire.
Brady is reported to have rolled
into a canal to put out flames on
his clothing. The Associated Press
said he was badly burned but re
ceived no other injuries.
Brady, who is from Highlands,
was driving a load of lettuce crates
for the Rio Grande Valley.
Notified McQuillen
The Dean of Men’s office first
learned of the accident yesterday
when Travis Smith jr. of Houston
notified E. E. McQuillen, head of
the Development fund. Brady had
enrolled at A&M on an opportunity
award sponsored by Smith.
PROF R. E. LEIGHTON of the
dairy husbandi-y department will
conduct a short course on dairying
at Wharton county junior college
Feb. 22-26.
* * *
IRRIGATION SERVICE and
Suppliers conference will be held
here Feb. 11 - 12. It will be spon
sored by the agricultural engineer
ing department, with Roy Garrett
as chairman. About 75 persons are
expected to attend.
* * *
ABOUT 200 “flying farmers”
are expected to attend an Agri
cultural Aviation conference here
Feb. 21 - 23. The conference will be
jointly sponsored by the A&M Col
lege system, the Texas Aeronautics
commission and the Texas Flying
Fai’mei’s association. Fred Weick
of the aer-onautical engineering
department will be chairman.
Also Money
Juniors Discuss Dance, Shirts
The junior class last night start
ed plans for their annual banquet
and dance, considered money- mak
ing projects, and discussed OD
shirts for sophomore cadets.
The junior dance will be March
20. Jerry Ramsey, class president,
named committees for the dance.
James Buchanan, class social
secretary, will be general chair
man.
Corm'-'ttee chairmen will be Val
Cannon, ance; Bob Rowland, ban
quet; Dick McCasland, program;
Wallace Eversberg, guests^ Bill
Utsman, tickets; Howard Childers,
sweetheart; and Harri Baker, publi
city.
The class officers and committee
chairman will meet next Tuesday
night in the student activities of
fice to discuss details of the ban
quet and dance.
The approximately 300 members
of the class present also voted to
form a committee to investigate the
possibility of raising money for a
class gift. The junior class now has
$300 in its class fund.
The class discussed the possi
bility of selling pennants with
“Clasd of 55—Texas A&M” on
them.
Wallace Eversberg will head the
committee. Other members are
Bill Finn, Art Garner, Taylor Gil-
lam and Dave Mitchell.
After a 20-minute discussion on
the wearing of OD shirts by sopho
more cadets, the class approved a
motion that sophomores should
wear “army OD shirts,” and wear
them only with “army OD pants
and caps, as prescribed in the col
lege regulations.”
College regulations say that se
cond year cadets can wear “OD
shirts with OD trousers only”.
The discussion started because
some juniors felt that some sopho
mores were wearing OD shirts that
were “too green.”
Earl Pike, who made the motion
said that any sophomores who were
in doubt about the color could check
with “the color shirts the s
geants in the Trigon wear.”
Ramsey said that he “had been
assured” that anything the class
decided would be issued as a mill
tary order.
Police School
Starts Here
Twenty-five men from widely
scattered parts of the state are at
tending the sixth Texas Municipal
Police school hei'e now, acocrding
to Wallace D. Beasley of the En
gineering Extension service, spon
sor of the school.
Beasley, who has been connected
with police and education work for
the past 17 years, said the men will
receive intensive schooling in all
phases of police work from how to
patrol a beat effectively to the
rights of a citizen.
The school, which will last
through February 26, is the sixth
in a series originated by the TEES
after requests from city managers
and other interested persons of
Texas.
Those attending are Assistant
Chief Bob Parker of Kingsville;
Chief Paul Bone of Glen Rose;
Chief Joe W. Allen of Carrollton;
Patrolmen Riley Henderson of
Irving; Forest Bailey and Melvin
James of San Angelo; D. L. John
son of Denison; Louis Petry of
Seguin; Robert D. Tidwell of
Hearne; Bobby Bradfield of Gar
land; James Wise, Delmo Jasper,
Curtis Dunagan and Pete Marino
of Bryan; James Glover of Wichi
ta Falls; Solon Neely and Alvin
Nelson of Victoria;
Rex A. Mars of Mt. Pleasant;
Deloss M. Grayson and Isidro Tre
vino of Midland; Amos G. John
son and William E. Shaffer of Big
Spring; William Allen Fry of Luf
kin and T. J. Despain and Arthur
Rios of Corpus Christi.
Goode Is Chairman
Of Military Ball
Kert Goode, senior agriculture
major from Bertram, has been ap
pointed general cadet chairman of
the annual Military Ball.
The committees and cadet mem
bers are as follows:
Program: Stan Bell and George
Skladal; invitation, Victor Ken
nedy and Kyle Gruene; guest, Car-
roll Phillips and John Akard; de
coration, Andrew Gary, Carl Wil
son, Gene Kilgore and Bob Manner.
Publicity: Wesley Gross and
Harri Baker; ticket sales, Roscoe
Hunt, Dale Dowell, Pat Wood and
T. B. Field; finance and orchestra,
Vol Montgomery and John Farrell;
refreshments, Ide Trotter and Holie
Briscoe.
Military advisors will be appoint
ed to the various committees at a
later date, Goode said.
Weather Today
Hope of United
Germany Fades
In Berlin Meet
BERLIN—(/P)—The West’s
faint hopes for a reunified
free Germany lay smashed on
the rocks of immovable Sov
iet opposition today. There
were only thin prospects that the
Big Four foreign ministers confer
ence could rescue anything from
the ruins.
Formally proposing again the
Soviet-style German peace treaty
which the West rejected two years
ago. Russia’s hard-chinned V. M.
Molotov last night shredded to rib
bons the Western proposal that
the divided World War II foe be
made whole again on the pattern
of the free nations with free
elections, a free press and free as
sociation with other powers.
Molotov again laid down the
familiar Kremlin ultimatum—that
Germany will be united on Russia’s
terms or not at all.
There was certainly no possibil
ity that U. S. Secretary of State
Dulles, British Foreign Secretary
Rien or French Foreign Minister
Ridault would agree to any part
of that. Officials of all three West
ern delegations agreed the latest
Berlin confei’ence had foundered on
issue of a German settlement.
PARTLY CLOUDY
Cloudy to partly cloudy today,
clearing tonight. Clear tomorrow
with possible cloudiness early in
the morning. High yesterday 70.
j Low this morning 55.
Judging Team Wins
4th in Ft. Worth
The A&M livestock judging team
took a fourth place in the general
livestock judging meets at the
Southwestern Exposition and Fat
Stock Show in Fort Worth yester
day.
Iowa State college took- first
place in the meet, Oklahoma A&M
was second and New Mexico A&M
was third.
Ben Kelly of Iowa State was
high point man in the meet.