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D. B. COFFER COLLEGE ARCHIV MSC, FE 3 COPIES Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents I kj> L PUBLISHED PALLY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 183: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1954 Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Price Five Ceuta iors Set Plans For Selection Of Class Sweetheart Plans ’naVe started for the select ion of a sweetheart for the junior clas dance and banquet, March 20. All. juniors are eligible to enter a girl in the contest, and pictures may be turned in at the Student Activities office, second floor of Goodwin hall. At Least 5x7 Pictures must be at least 5” by 7”, but 8” by 10” pictures are pre- fered, according to Howard Chil- dres, sweetheart committee chair man. Ijlore than one picture may be entered, Childers said, but all pictures must be clipped to gether or in a folder. Attached to the bicture must be the candidates full name, home town, mailing address and tele phone number. Childers said the finalists will be wired or telephoned at once after the selection. The following statistics should also be attached to the picture: height, weight, bust, waist, hips,, eye color and hair color. March 6 Deadline Deadline for turning in pictui'es is March 6. A judge for the pictures will be chosen by the junior class officers and dance committee members next Tuesday. Other members of the sweetheart committee are Sam Akard, Sammy Netterville, Bob Carpenter and Buck Isbell. Pictures of the finalists will be published in The Battalion before the dance. The sweetheart will be selected at the‘dance. Press Conference Lufkin Publisher To Speak Feb. 12 Speculation On Fate of Preseat W. R. Beaumier, vice-president and general manager of the Luf kin Publishing Company and publisher of the Lufkin Daily- News, will be principal speaker for the First Texas Junior College Press conference to be held here February 12-18. Approximately 55 students and faculty advisors from 10 junior col leges have indicated they will at tend the affair, the first of its kind in the state. Wayne R. Dean, senior journ- Blism'student from Brownwood, is general chairttiftTf^Wr” the con ference. He says the purpose of the convention is to “organize a press conference for Texas junior colleges and to strengthen the prestige of student publications in smaller schools.” The conference will open Friday With registration at 3 p. m. Presi dent David H. Morgan will form ally welcome the delegates with an address that evening at a ban quet in the student center ball room. A dance will follow in the assembly room. Saturday morning the convention will be broken down into separate . workshop sessions for student publications workers and faculty advisors. The sessions will deal with problems common to all small college student publications. Mode rators for the sessions will be A&M students Jim Ashlock, Tom Skrabanek, Harri Baker, Jerry Bennett, Ed Holder, Jon Kinslow, and Bob Boriskie. Roland Bing, manager of A&M student publications on leave of absence, will direct the session dealing with finance and the col lege yearbook. Assisting him will be Tom Mmray, chief artist for Taylor Publishing company of Dal las, and Carl Jobe, manager of A&M student publications. Mur ray will be special speaker for the yearbook session, discussing “Lay out In Choosing A Theme.” The Conference will close with final remarks at 3 p.m. Saturday. Col leges attending are Arlington State college, Tarleton State college, Wharton junior college, Howard County junior, Decatur Baptist college, Kilgore junior college, Par is junior college, Schreiner insti tute, Southwestern Bible institute, and Victoria college. Architect Shows Color Slides Today Seventy color slides portraying the work of Osmundson and Staley, San Francisco landscape architects, will be shown in the Memorial Stu dent Center today. Robert F. White of the depart ment of floriculture and landscape architecture will give the narration which accompanies the color slides. White’s department is sponsoring the showing of contemporary de sign gardens, and the show is open to the public. Students Refuse To Go to Mexico U. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 —CP> — The senior class of the National Law School refused today to go to the new 20 million dollar Univer sity City to study. They said the new university is too far from the city, is not prop erly furnished, lacks communica tions, and is not ready for use. Bryant Will Decide On His Assistants By JERRY WIZIG Battalion Sports Editor A&M is wondering today what the fate of its former athletic director will be and if the present assistant coaches will be retained after Paul (Bear) Bryant, new head football coach and athletic director, arrives. Bryant succeeds Barlow (Bones) Irvin as athletic direc tor, and President David H. Morgan said Bryant has been given a free rein in naming his assistants. Bryant, 41, ac cepted a six year, $15,000 a year contract shortly after Mor gan wired the offer to Lexington, Ky. Bryant said he had submitted his resignation at Kentucky and that he will be here in a week or 10 days if his resignation is accepted. The selection was made exactly a month after Ray -♦George resigned as head coach. Bryant, who still had Paul (Bear) Bryant Bryant Tells Why He Took A&M Job LEXINGTON, Feb. 5—Paul (Bear) Bryant offered a two-fold reason today for leaving Kentucky to become football coach at Texas A&M. “When we played at A&M in the 1952 season I was tremendously impressed, particularly by the spirit of student body. “I think it presents certain chal lenges that appeal to me-” Nine Years Bryant, with nine years to go on his contract at Kentucky, said he was “very thankful for all the nice things that happened to me and my family in Kentucky.” The coach went to Frankfort earlier today and talked with Gov. Lawrence Wetherby, a close friend. “I hate to see Kentucky lose Bryant. I think he’s the greatest coach in the country,” Wetherby said. New Groups Set for RE Two new discussion groups for Religious Emphasis Week, Feb. 15-16, will be for faculty members and married students. Until this year, discussion groups have held in dormitory lounges for students only. Leaders and the two new groups will be Dr. Sidney Hamilton, mar ried students, and Di\ Kelley Bar nett, faculty members. Hamilton, a professor, North Texas State college, Denton, will lead the forums and discussion groups for married students in the YMCA chapel. Courses taught by Hamilton in- Seniors to Meet To Hear Reports The senior clas will meet Mon day, with committee reports as the main item on the agenda. The meeting will be at 7:15 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center ball room. Committees reporting and their chairmen are social, Gil Stribling; class gift, Charles Fenner; evalua tion, Marvin Ford; constitution, Harold Kupfer; and traditions, Jimmy Tyree. Old business to be discussed in cludes the student senate and the Student Life committee* elude mental testing, clinical psychology, projective techniques, adolescent development, guidance and marital psychology. A writer as well as teacher, Hamilton is author of “Workbook in Marital Psychology,” and co author of “Workbook in Adolescent Psychology” and “Workbook in Adolescent Development”. He also does consultant work in marital adjustments and personality pro blems. Hamilton received his B A and M A from NTSC in administrative education and sociology. He later received his doctorate from New York university with emphasis in psychology. The leader of the faculty discus sion groups, Barnett, is with the Episcopal Theological seminary, Austin. Barnett received his AB degree fi’om Hardin Simmons university and his Doctor of Theology from Southem Baptist Theological Semi nary. He has done post-graduate work at the University of North Carolina and Columbia university, and completed residence work for his PhD. degree at Yale university. At present, he is associate pro fessor of Christian ethics of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, professor of mar riage and morals under the canter bury Bible chair at the .University of Texas, and Interim - Vicar in charge of St. George’s Episcopal church in Austin. Barnett is a 32nd degree Mason, and active in the Scottish Rite. He was listed in “Who’s Who” and awarded the Rosenwald Fellowship, 1946. Weather Today The governor, who frequently travels with Kentucky teams, add ed, “I also think he is one of the best builders of young men” in the coaching profession. “I have submitted my resignation to Mr. Shively (Athletic Director Bernie Shively) and we would have talked with Dr. Donovan (Univer sity President H. L. Donovan) per sonally but he was busy and un available,” Bryant said. “I assume my resignation will be accepted at which time I will officially accept the position at A&M.” Athletic Board Shively said Donovan would act on the resignation and presumably take it up with the athletic board. The question of a successor would be up to the president, he added. Bryant asked that the resigna tion become effective “as soon as practical.” The coach said he would name his staff at A&M, but “that will come laterJ’ Bryant’s salary at Kentucky was estimated variously at from $12,000 to $17,000. Bryant had a 6-2-1 record at Maryland in 1945 before coming to Kentucky. His mark here was 60-23-5. CLEAR and WARM Clear with warm days and cool nights. High yesterday 78. Low this morning 44. Craft Shop Solves MSC Problem If the Memorial Student Center craft shop is as good as its signs say, the worries about getting television in the MSC are over. There is a beautiful, large- screen TV set on display in the MSC fountain room. Prop ped up against it is a sign saying “Made in the MSC craft shop.” Those fellows must be good, or maybe the sign was referr ing to the pottery in the show case below it. Senior Class Gift Ideas Taken in MSC Senioi's can drop their sugges tions for a class gift in a box placed in the Memorial Student Center today. The box will remain in the MSC Xor only one day. The Battalion Was First To Run Story Thanks to the cooperation of the employees at A&M Press, The Battalion was the first newspaper in the state to carry the news that Paul (Bear) Bryant had been offered the job of new head football coach at A&M. The papers which went to the dormitories carried the news, but unfortunately the out-of-town and some of the locally mailed papers didn’t carry the announcement. President David H. Morgan held the press conference to announce the news yesterday at 4:10 p.m. Five minutes later copies of The Battalion which carried the news were circulated among the newsmen present at the conference. Bruckart to Leave For Israel Feb. 8 R. F. Bruckart of the industrial engineering department will leave Feb. 8 for Tel Aviv, Israel, on - a Point IV program assignment. He will work on a controlling and teaching assignment to develop methods of improving Israel’s in dustries, while on a two-year leave from the college. nine years remaining on a 12 year contract, gets the high est salary ever paid an A&M coach. He was receiving an amount estimated to be from 12,000 to $17,000 a year. George got $10,- 500 a year. Yesterday, Morgan said, “There has been some delay in the selec tion, but once the decision is reach ed, the college is behind him 100 per cent.” He said that Bryant wil] receive no additional payment as head coach and athletic director from outside sources. “As far as outside employment,, we have a method of allowing employees to engage in outside work if it does n’t interfere and is approved,” said Morgan. Had TV Program At Kentucky, Bryant had a tele vision program and an interest in an insurance business. Morgan said Bryant had never visited the campus. He was first contacted in Cincinnati at the De cember convention of the National Collegiate Athletic association. At that time, Bryant said he wasn’t interested in the three-year $12,000 a year contract offered then. Reportedly Bryant was visited in a Dallas hotel over the weekend by G. R. V/hite, chairman of the board of directors, and W. T. .Doherty and R. H. (Jack) Finney, jr., members of the three-man sub committee named by the board of directors to aid the athletic coun cil in an “advisory capacity.” Line Coach Mike Michalske told (See SPECULATION, Page 2) Debaters Win Four Tourneys In Road Tour A&M’s traveling debate team won first place in the Ohio State university debate tourney during its tour of seven colleges between semes ters. Making the tour were Bud Whitney, sophomore from Big Spring; John Wilson, sophomore from' Dallas; and Rick Black, senior from Houston. Besides the OSU meet, the team won three debates, lost two, and received a “no decision” on one. Debates won were with West Point, Columbia and New York university. Debates with Princeton and the U. S. Merchant Marine academy were lost. Their meet with Temple university ended in a ‘no decision”. This next tournaments scheduled by the Debate team are at Baylor this weekend and in Abilene Feb. 12 and 13. The Baylor tourney will feature college orators from five South western states, debating on U. S. free trade policy. Texas schools among the 25 colleges competing are A&M, Tex as Christian university, University of Houston, WRarton junior col lege, Texas . College of Arts and Industries, Mary Hardin - Baylor college, North Texas State col lege, Southern Methodist uni versity, Abilene Christian college, University of Texas, Rice institute, Hardin Simmons university, Stephen F. Austin State college, and Baylor. DeMars to Head Golden State Club Jim DeMars of South Pasedena, Calif., wull be president of the Golden State club for the spring semester. The Golden State club is com posed of A&M students from California. Other officers are Frank Hill, vice-president; Robert Ruiz, secre tary-treasurer; and Pete Rathbone, reporter. THE WINNERS — Holding the first-place trophy they inrj »» a p.i\/r ofndonts Rnr Wnitnav