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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Number 181: Volume 53 PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1954 Price Five Cents Television Fund I fits $1,125 Mark The Memorial Student Center now has $1,125.35 in its television fund drive, and plans for the mas ter antenna system have been ap proved, according to J. Wayne Stark, MSC director. Stark estimated that construc tion on the antennas would begin within two or three weeks. They will be built on the roof of the new physical education building. Most of the money in the fund has been donated by mothers clubs and former student clubs through out the state. The rest has come Incentive Is Key to Good Group Relation Incentive is the key to suc cessful employer-employe re lations, said Claude A. Edge, co-founder and treasurer of the Lilly Ice Cream company of Bryan. Edge, speaking to the College Station Kiwanis club, said incentive plans for his employes have helped his company. “Through one of these plans, our employes now own one-fifth of the common stock of our company, and more is available when they want to buy it,” he said. Other plans Edge said his com pany has used included a sick and accident program, bonus plan for production of a new pi-oduct, an employe . loan association, and a profit-sharing pension Nmi. “Although the loan association is only four years old, it is used much by the employes,” Edge said. “However, material benefits are Dot the whole story of good re lations.” Among benefits discussed by Edge which he considered non material were encouraging em ployes to own their own homes, and suggest ways for improving production. “Employes should feel they are on a ‘team’, and should support it,” Edge said. Aggie-Ex Killed In Fall from Horse Lester L. Gay, class of ’53, was fatally injured Jan. 8 in a fall from his horse at a 1'anch near Albu querque, New Mexico. Gay died Jan. 19 in the Presby terian hospital in Albuquerque. He never regained consciousness. He was buried in Cherokee Jan. 22. Another ranch worker helping him found Gay with his head buried in a bed of gravel. The other work er did not see the accident. Gay, from Cherokee, was work ing on the ranch prior to entering the service. He had taken his physi cal examination and was waiting for orders. from private donations and the col lection tubs in the Center. The goal for the drive is $2,500. The money will be used to pay for both television sets and antennas, said Charlie Parker, chairman of the television fund committee. Parker said at least four sets would be placed in the MSC. Two sets have been donated, one by former student Jack Finney, and one by Sears, Roebuck and Com pany. , There will be from six to eight outlets for the sets in the Center, in such places as the serpentine lounge. The sets can be moved from place to place to accomodate various size crowds, Parker said. Other members of the television committee are Rodney Heath, Stan Bell, Don Friend, and J. B. (Dick) Hervey, representing the former students. Bad Weather Stops Work On CS Roads Continued bad weather has delayed road maintenance by the city, said Ran Boswell, city manager. Desides road repair, the weather has delayed complet ion of a footbridge on Jersey street between Consolidated high school and highway six. “The streets have suffered more from this spell of bad weather than any other this year,” said Boswell. “We can not estimate now how much repair wor’k will be done, but it will be a lot.” Aggie-Ex Group Sets Meet Here The Executive Board of the Former Students association will meet here Feb. 20 and 21 to ap prove a 1954 budget for the as sociation office and to hear com mittee reports. They will also plan the annual Former Student council meeting in May. Committees to report are the by laws committee, the nominating committee and the chapel commit tee. The chapel committee will meet here Feb. 19. Ballots are now being sent out for election of new members to the Former Student council. Each of the 31 Texas senatorial districts and chartered A&M clubs will elect a councilman. Ten councilmen-at-large will al so be elected. Ballots will be com piled here starting March 5, ac cording to J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive secretary of the associa tion. The council is the governing body of the association, responsible for its management, policies and program. From KVOO FAIR AND WARMER—Screen actress Mary Castle a pic torial temperature gauge for the unseasohal spring weath er. She stars in Universal-International movies. News Briefs DR. DAN RUSSELL of the so ciology department told the Saddle and Sirloin club last night about foreign breeds of cattle, illustrat ing his talk with colored slides. . * * INFLUENZA headed the list of communicable diseases reported in College Station last week. Fifteen cases were reported. Diarrhea was second with 14 cases reported. Total cases in Brazos county was in fluenza, 45, and diarrhea, 26. * * * A PANEL and an open discussion on “Taxonomy and Its Problems” will be presented by the plant science Colloquium at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in the YMCA cabinet room. Members of the panel will be J. J. Sperry, N. Weaver, W. B. Davis and Frank Gould. SECOND Lt. William E. Camp bell, ’52, has been awarded his wings from the multi-engine flying school at Reese air force base. Campbell, whose parents live in McAllen, entered the air force in August, 1952. THE CLASSES OF ’14, and ’16 will have a joint reunion here Feb. 20 and 21. No program for the meeting has been set, according to J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive secretary of the Former Students association. * * * A REPRESENTATIVE of North American Aviation, Inc. will be here March 31 to interview June through September graduates for jobs at the company’s Los Angeles and Columbus plants. Junior engi neering positions are available. * * * ARMY AVIATOR Gussie E. Meisenheimer, A&M former stu dent, is now in Korea. He is a se cond lieutenant with the 7th in fantry division. ‘Sleepwalker’ To Be MC By IIARRI BAKER Battalion Campus Editor The man who keeps the Aggies company during their wee-hours studying will be here as master of ceremonies for the annual Inter collegiate Talent shqw, March 19. The man is Hollis Charles Hull, disc-jockey of the radio show “Sleepwalkers Seranade”, broad cast from midnight to 2:30 a. m. over KVOO in Tulsa, Okla. He will preside over the talent show featuring entertainers from colleges and universities all over the Southwest. The show will be in Guion hall and admission will be 75 cents a person. Only one show will be given. Second Most Popular Hull was rated as the second most popular local disc-jockey in the United States in the February, 1953, issue of Billboard magazine. He has been spinning records for KVOO since 1942. He started “Sleepwalkers Seranade” in 1949. Surprising to most of his radio listeners is the fact that Hull is a graduate of the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science, and is a licensed embalmer and funeral director in the state of Oklahoma. He is part owner of a funeral home in Tulsa. He is a member of Tulsa’s First Presbyterian church and the Cosmopolitan International club. ‘Most Useful’ In January, Hull was awarded the club’s Silver Service cup for the “most useful member of 1953.” He is also a 33rd degree Mason of the Scottish Rite. Hull was born on a farm in southeastern Iowa. He majored in speech at Parsons college in Fair- field, Iowa. At college he was given the nickname “Doc”. During World War II he was a master sergeant with the public information department of the Students To Give Science Papers Graduate and undergi-aduate A&M students will present papers at a joint meeting of the Texas Academy of Science and High School Science Teachers conference here April 2-3. The students’ papers will be written on various levels, including high school, college and graduate students. Dr. Charles LaMotte of the biol ogy department is in charge of the papers for the college students. army War College in Washington, D. C. On a lecture trip to Canada dur ing the war he met his wife, known to his audience as “the duchess”. He has one child, Stevie. The MSC Music committee, which will sponsor the talent show, will begin today to audition pei-formers. They will have auditions at the University of Texas tonight and at Sam Houston State college, Rice Institute and the University of Houston Friday. Making these trips will be Tom Barron, Bob King, John Bolriba, Earl Rossman and Margaret Long, MSC program consultant. More Auditions Feb. 11 auditions will be held at Baylor, Texas Christian university, and Southern Methodist university. Feb. 12 auditions will be held at Arlington State college, North Texas State college, and Texas State College for Women. Miss Long and King will also make this trip, along with Randy Kanz, Cliff Douglas and Duane Kent. Talent from Oklahoma colleges will also be on the program, ac cording to Miss Long. Hull has been mentioning the show on his radio program. InstrumentDisplay Set Up in Center Meteorologists from A&M and Bryan air force base are presenting a display of their instruments in the Memorial Student Center. Among the instruments on show will be a radiosonde. This is a robot-like apparatus which is sent aloft attached to a balloon. It measures the characteristics of th^ upper air and radios the data back to the ground. Another instrument on display is the theodolite. This is a telescope which turns on several axes. It is also used by the surveyor and astronomer. Conditions leading up to the norther which hit here on Jan. 20 are shown on charts and maps in another showcase. GLAMOR FOR TEACHERS O M A H A—CP)—What teachers need is more glamor, says Dr. Galen Saylor, professor of educa tion at the University of Nebraska, and president of the Nebraska Par ent-Teacher Association: “We’ve got to make the teaching profession attractive to young peo ple. We ought to point up the glamorous side of teaching.” Dr. Saylor thinks he may even suggest the Nebraska P-TA board “have some kind of glamour con tent.” AF June Graduates May Not Gel Rank > Aggie Movie Premiere Set For March 5 The world premiere show ing of “We Are the Aggies” has been set for March 5 in Guion hall. The film is 30 minutes long with sound and color. It depicts life at A&M. Admission will be 25 cents, and all proceeds will go to the campus chest fund. A world premiere committee has been named to handle arrange ments for the showing. The com mittee was appointed by C. G. (Spike) White, chairman of the movie committee for the film. “It will be a Hollywood style premiere complete with kleig lights,” said John Akard, chair man of the premiere committee. “Guests will be announced as they arrive, and campus dignitaries will come in cars.” Members of the committee are Akard, B. K. Boyd, Buddy Fox- worth, Carroll Phillips, Bob Hendry, Bob Manner and John Kinslow. Advisors to the group are White; Otis Miller of the jour nalism department; Tom Buddy, manager of Guion hall. 8,723 Poll Taxes Paid In County From an estimated total of 14,000 eligible voters' in Brazos county, 8,723 qualified to vote dur ing the year by either paying their poll tax or obtaining exemption slips by the Saturday deadline. Of the 8,723 voters, 6,975 paid the poll tax and 1,748 registered for exemptions. Only a few addi tional receipts were expected by mail to add to the county total, said Norton Burkhalter, county tax collector and assessor. Special sub-stations, established to get people to pay their poll tax, turned in a total of 2,380 poll taxes. Of this, 328 were sold at the Col lege Station State Bank booth, 60 at the Memorial Student Center and the H. E. Burgess station re corded 42 poll taxes sold. MSC Bowlers Set Three Tourneys Three bowling tournaments will start this week at the Memorial Student Center bowling alleys. At 7 p. m. tonight the A&M Bowling club starts new averages for the semester. Anyone, from freshman to graduate students, can join the club and participate in competitive bowling. This tournament runs for a week. The poster in the MSC, by the post office, gives all the important in formation. Two “spare” tournaments, one for men and one for women start at 1 p. m. Saturday and continue •until 11 p. m. Sunday. Anyone in the Bryan - College Station area is invited to enter. The rules and prize lists are posted in the bowling alley. Entries must be in by Thursday. Here is the box score for the College' Station - Bryan Bowling association of the American Bowl ing Congress. Team W L Faulk’s Auto 39 12 Conway & Co. 37 14 Student Co-op 33 18 Coca Cola 25 26 Riverside 24 y 2 26% Carroll’s 19 32 Brueggeman 17% 33% Dorm Counselors 9 42 Faculty RuePinalle Slated for March 18 March 18 is the date set foivthe all faculty Rue Pinalle in the Me morial Student Center. The Rue Pinalle is sponsored by the A&M Employees Dinner club. Personnel who plan to attend are asked by the dinner club committee to wear fkench type costumes for the occasion. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes, said Walter Dela- plane, dean of arts and sciences, and dinner club committee chair man. Army Plans Commissions For All Graduates Two articles in the Jan. 23 issue of Army-Navy-Air Force Journal reveal there is practically no assurance that all air force ROTC June graduates will receive commissions. The newspaper, a weekly unofficial publication dealing with news of services, reports the air force is expected to accept only 7,000 officers dur-'t ing the fiscal year beginning June 30. According to Air Univer sity, there are 16,000 gradu ating seniors in advanced air force ROTC. Additional figures from Air University, the supervisory command of air force ROTC, show a little more than half the seniors, 8,500 cadets, will receive commis sions. The 8,500 figure was released late in December and consists mainly of pilot training applicants. With only 7,000 officers being accepted into the air force from all sources, the ROTC quota is cut down further. The quota for air force enlisted men in the next fis cal year is 12,000. This quota is expected to absorb the non-com missioned ROTC graduates. The army, with a surplus of 10,000 second lieutenants graduat ing from colleges this June, has proposed a plan which will com mission all these men. Army second lieutenants may serve as little as 90 days of indoc trination and may then go to active reserve units in a civilian status for the remainder of the two-year period, according to The Journal. The army will definitely not con sider the enlisted service plan of the air foi’ce. Army authorities consider the plan a “breach of con tract,” said The Journal. Local military offices have not received any official notification of the new plans. However, they said the delay between the policy making and actual operations stage is sometimes long. Bottle Losses Drop In Most Dormitories Bottle losses in the dormi tories were greatly reduced for December as compared to the losses of the preceding year. There were 1,536 bottles lost in December, 1953, as compared to 4,706 lost in December, 1952. Publicity by The Battalion, em phasis by Fred Mitchell, Corps commander, and support by the company commanders played a leading role in the tremendous re duction of these losses, said Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. This reduction has proved three things, said Zinn. Eirst, the realization that the broken bottles were a chief cause of serious accidents on the campus; second, the fact that there was just a big waste of bottles and finally, the monetary loss. Zinn emphasized the fact that many persons have had serious in juries occuring in accidents in volving broken bottles. He said that the past month proved a loss of money for three dormitories due to the fact that there was an excess of bottle los- 6 No Incentive 9 Students Favor Final Exemptions By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor The Academic council should not have abolished exemptions at A&M was the concensus of 11 students interviewed yesterday. “I don’t believe the Academic council had the interest of the stu dents in mind when it passed the regulation,” said Don Richards, junior from Banquete. “The abolishing of exemptions did not increase the academic standing of A&M but instead elimi nated the incentive exemptions give students,” he added. Dale Flournoy, sophomore from Breckenridge, said “I think exemp tions should be given as a reward to those students who work hard or are smart enough to deserve them.” “I’m against exemptions,” said freshman Don R. Derby from Hous ton. “Some students graduate from college without taking a final and without learning to take informa tion and arrange it in a compact form. Bill Finn, Junior from Denison, said a student who had made high grades throughout the semester would not study to improve his average by means of the final, which is one of its pui’poses, but would study only enough to get by. “The main purpose of a final is to give a student a strong review of the course,” said Gus Wulfman, senior from Amarillo. “If a person has made high enough grades dur ing the semester to qualify for an exemption, he usually doesn’t need the review.” C. D. (Bud) Fried, senior from Texas City, said he favored the abolishing of exemptions. “A final CALF IS LIGHTER HAISTEAD, Kans. UP)—Farmer Art Wedel’s barn lights kept com ing on—and members of the family got tired of being blamed for for getting to switch them off. So one member of the family watched while the others drove away. A 2-month-old Hereford calf, mistaking the knob on the toggle switch for a nipple, was nudging the lights on. examination ties a course to gether,” he said. “Major quizzes are taken and forgotten.” “He is hurt later when he is required to take business entrance examinations in which compact knowledge is a necessity.” Emil J. Papacek jr., sophomore from Cuero, said he disliked the council’s i-uling because he felt the new system would hurt the poorer students in a class by making the professor’s standard on final ex aminations higher. Don Walker, junior from Mc Leod, and Jack McClary, senior from Marble Falls, felt exemptions should be kept because they acted as an incentive for students to study harder. Freshman John H. Specht from New Braunfels said, “I think we should keep exemptions because they help A&M remain unique.” Rockdale sophomore Rufus Moore had a reason for keeping examptions that many students agreed with. “I just don’t like to take finals,” he said. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Clear today and tonight. Clear and partly cloudy tomorrow. High yesterday 69; Low last night 39,