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Number 181: Volume 53
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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,