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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 186: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1954 Price Five Cents Batt Extends Roommate Name Contest Because of the interest in the contest to name Cadet Slouch’s roommate, The Battalion will extend the voting through 10 p. m. tonight. The rules are the same; that is, there are practically no rules. The ballot box is by the post office entrance of the Me morial Student Center. You can vote for anyone, and you can vote as often as you want to. Ballots must be signed, so The Batt can award the prize, originals of Slouch cartoons featuring the roommate. The judges will be James Earle, the cartoonist, and Jerry Bennett and Ed Holder, Bat talion co-editors. And of course, to keep things democratic, the judges reserve the right to throw away any or all ballots. The name of the winner will be announced soon. ASSISTANT COACHES—Three of the five man staff which athletic director and head coach Paul (Bear) Bryant named this morning are pictured as they read the “Handbook for Faculty and Staff,” to familiarize themselves with A&M. .The new assistants are (1. to r.) Jim Owens, who will work with linemen; Jerry Claiborne, who will work with backs, and Phil Cutchins who will also work with the backs. Pat Jones, other new assis tant, is enroute to College Station from Lexington. For RE Week Song Leader Has Wide Background > By Frank Hines Battalion Staff Writer Song leader for Religious Em phasis week Feb. 15-19 will be the Rev. Everett Seale, pastor of the First Methodist church of Beeville. Seale comes to A&M with a wide background in music, having work- »:1 with evangelistic singing jn the Methodist church for 20 years. Be sides his ministerial work,-he has also been district song leader in " both the Lions and Rotary clubs. After studying at Rice institute . and Southwestern university in Georgetown, Seale taught school , ‘ for four years, then spent a year in the field artillery during World War I. Since 193(> he has had ■ charge of the music at the Texas Pastor’s school at Southwestern University each summer. The forums for dormitory 10 and the third and fourth floors of dorm itory 17 will be lead by Seale. Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum, of Temple Beth-El, Fort Worth, will live in dormitory 10 and lead forums for dormitories 10 and 12. A native of New York, Rosen baum. received his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 1930 and his MHL from the Hebrew Un- ^ ion college, Cincinnati in 1940. Serving as assistant rabbi of the Euclid Avenue temple, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1940-43, he then spent three years as chaplain in the army. During the two years he was overseas, he spent six months in the Japanese occupation and . other duty in the Saipan and Oki- ‘ nawa campaigns. Rosenbaum is sponsored jointly by B’nai B’rith Hillel foundation and the Jewish Chattaqua. A man who formerly was state Baptist Student union president and a member of “Who’s Who in American Colleges” will lead dis cussion groups for dormitories 5 and 7. He is the Rev. Bruce Mclver, di rector of Baptist student work at Southwest Texas State Teachers _ college for the past five years. He became interested in working with Christian youth and youth revivals during his college and * seminary days. Since then he has . preached in city-wide revivals in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco and San Antonio. He was pastor of the First Baptist church, Walnut Springs in 1947-49. Mclver’s college work includes studying at Mars Hill Junior col lege, Baylor university and South western Baptist Theological semi nary, Fort Worth. Army Cadets Can Gel Deferments Army graduates may apply for deferments from active duty to do graduate work. Each application is judged individually by the chief of the Texas military district. Deferments will be granted only for graduate work in the student’s major field of study, said C. L. Brown, chief war rant officer. Kiwanians Planning Junior Clubs Here Plans are underway to organize junior Kiwanis clubs for the A&M and A&M Consolidated high school students. The Circle K will be for the col lege students and will be open to any classification. Baptists Plan Sweetheart Party The annual sweetheart banquet of the First Baptist church of Col lege Station will be held at 7:30 p. m. Feb. 13 in the educational build ing of the church. Ed Schmeltercof, president of the Baptist Student union and var sity fullback at San Marcos State Teachers college, will be speaker. Entertainment will consist of skits, musical numbers and pre sentation of the church Sweet heart. It was arranged by Sam Clark. “We are expecting this to be the best banquet we have ever held, but must limit our ticket sales to ap proximately 175 because of limited space,” said Jim Trimble, presi dent of the Church Student cabinet. ‘ Players' Director To Attend Meeting C. K. Esten, Aggie Players di rector, will attend the Texas Edu cational Theatrical association’s convention Feb. 12 and 13 in Arl ington. Esten said the purpose of the convention is to encourage and lay broader programs for theatri cal work in Texas colleges. Only the leading person from each drama department of the dif ferent TETA member colleges will . attend, said Esten. About 25 mem- * bers are expected. Esten is chairman of a TETA committee to study improving act ing courses in Texas colleges. He # will present his findings at the meeting. Pre-Law Society Elects Black Spring President Richard Black was elected presi dent Tuesday of the Pre-Law so ciety for the spring semester. Other officers elected at the meeting were Chuck Newman, vice president; Alan Soefje, secretary; A1 Grantan, reporter; and Sam Rowland, social secretary. Weather Today The Key club is for the high school students and will be for sophomores through seniors. Qualifications, meeting place and time have not been set, said John B. Longley, chairman of the Circle K and Key club committee for College Station Kiwanis club. For the present, any student in good standing and of good character will be the sole qualifica tions, said Longley. It is a wonderful opportunity to set up these clubs in which the stu dents can be of better service to the schools and give the students good training in such club work, he said. We hope to have a pre-organi zation meeting the last week in February, Longley said. CLEAR and COOL Clear with moderate winds to day and tonight. High yesterday 86. Low this morning 51. MSC Music Room Gets Phonograph A new high-fidelity record player has been added to the Memorial Student Center’s music room. Remodeling of the original music room was completed two weeks ago. Three separate record-play ing rooms have replaced the origin al one room. . The driginal room had been divided by partitions to give a three room effect, but the remodeling was necessary because of acoustical difficulties. MSC music committeeman Bob King says that the new hi-fi set has been “very popular.” The H. W. Hull family of Mid land gave the record player in memory of their son, Robert W. Hull, ’46, who was killed in World War II. The high-fidelity set is the first of its type, but second record play er for the MSC. A new r speaker cabinet has been installed in the old record player. Manning To Speak To CHS Students K. A. (Cubby) Manning, partner of Culpepper - Manning Insurance agency, will give a short talk to the students of A&M Consolidated high school soon. The talk, made in the interest of vocational guidance, will be “The Insurance Business as a Profes sion”. Manning, a graduate of A&M in 1948, u r as recently elected presi dent of College Station Civic De velopment Association and Cham ber of Commerce. Society Names Davis President Of Texas Area Frank Davis, A&M fresh man veterinary medicine major, has been elected presi dent of the Texas region of Gamma Delta. Davis was elected at the regional convention at Texas Tech in Lub bock. Doug Symmank, president of the A&M chapter, has invited mem bers to hold next year’s convention at A&M. Highlighting the convention were speeches by J. G. Allen, dean of student life at Tech, and Dr. E. N. Jones, president of Tech; the an nual banquet; and election of of ficers. Other officers elected were G. F. Mutscher, University of Texas, vice president; Carolyn Luecke, North Texas State College, secre tary; Sybil Ranfranz, SMU, trea surer; and Carolyn Jutzi, Univer sity of Texas, field secretary. A&M members attending the convention were Davis, Bill Sauer Oscar Dube, James Denard, Ken Steelhammer, Wayne Leverkuhn, Russell Wells, Dick Koop and Symmank. Three Reviews Set For This Semester At least three corps reviews are planned for the spring semester, said Maj. Luther Westbrook, ope rations officer of the air science department. The three already scheduled are for Military day, Parents’ day, and Final Review. A fourth is being considered for the week of Federal inspection, but no definite decision has been reached. A practice for the Military day review will be held at the drill period Feb. 18. The reviewing stand on the main drill field should be repaired in time for Military day, Westbrook added. Coaches This Morning New Trainer, Four Others From KU; Zapalac To Slay Five new members were named this morning to the A&M athletic department by Paul (Bear) Bryant, new head football coach and athletic director. The new men, all associated with Bryant at Kentucky, are Jim Owens, Phil Cutchin, Jerry Claiborne, Pat James and Charles (Smoky) Harper. No mention was made of the status of Aggie Line Coach Mike Michalske. He could not be located this morning. Barlow (Bones) Irvin, former athletic director, will be an administrative assistant in the athletic office. Willie Zapalac, last season’s freshman coach, will remain as chief scout and also will work with the backfield. Owens, former all-America end at Oklahoma, and James, who played under Bryant at Kentucky, will work with the line. Cutchin and Claiborne, who also were coached by Bryant at Kentucky, will work with the backs. Harper will be the team trainer. All members of the coaching staff will work with the freshmen. “The freshmen are entitled to the best,” said Bryant. Owens, Cutchin and Claiborne arrived at College Station last night. James is in New Boston, O., where his mother is critically ill. Co-captain of the 1949 Sooner Sugar Bowl team, Owens joined the Kentucky staff shortly after the Wildcats beat Oklahoma in the ’50 Sugar Bowl game. He played in four bowl games while at OU—- the ’47 Gator Bowl, the ’49-’50 Sugar Bowl games, and the ’50 Senior Bowl. In World War II Owens was in the Naval Air corps. He played with the professional Baltimore Colts in ’50 and was dnd coach on the Johns Hopkins staff. James was shifted to the line in his Kentucky playing days and be came one of the nation’s finest de fensive guards before ending his playing career in the 1951 Sugar Bowl. Cutchin finished in football at Kentucky in 1946. In ’47 he be came assistant football coach at Ohio Wesleyan and was recoiled to the service in December, 1950. He served in Korea for a year and was appointed at Kentucky August 1, 1952. Claiborne also joined the Wildcat staff in August,! ’52. He was an outstanding safetyman and end during four years of varsity play under Bryant. He was regarded as one of the nation’s top pass in terceptors and became head foot ball coach at Augusta, Va., Mili tary academy after graduation. Harper is a 1923 graduate of Mercer university at Macon, Ga. Academy Award Movie Set Tomorrow in MSC The A&M Film Society will show “Sergeant York” tomorrow night in the Memorial Student center ball room. The show, which won actor Gary Cooper an academy award, starts at 7:30. A foreign language movie, “Dream No More”, will be shown at the same time on Mon day night. BOHEMIA BEAUTY — Miss Molly Swesny of Dayton has been chosen sweetheart of the A&M Czech club. Eighteen pictures were entered in the contest. Even HS Day Awaits Word From Bryant Everything at A&M is wait ing on Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant — even High School day. The date for High School day cannot be set until Bryant gives the word, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of student activities. Hardesty said the date would be set as soon as Bryant gets in the swing of things and has a schedule set for spring training. “The program will probably be about the same as last year, but we will not know until Coach Bryant has time to look things over,” Hardesty said. MSC Telegraph Near Completion Completion of the new Memorial Student Center telegraph facilities has been delayed until the last part of this month. J. Wayne Stark, MSC director, said the new location of the tele graph office should prove to be much more convenient than the old location in the Exchange store. The telegraph office had to move because of lack of storage space. According to Stark, if the MSC had not had space in the telephone center, the telegraph office would have been moved off the campus. Work was begun during the Christmas holidays when a new counter was installed in the tele phone center. Some of the telephone equipment has been moved around to accommodate the telegraph facilities. Players Working On ‘Oedipus Rex ’ Rehearsals of “Oedipus Rex” which began last week are coming along fine, said C. K. Esten, di rector of the production. The English 382 class, a course in stage craft, is building the set for the play. They will also handle lighting and backstage work. The stage manager is Raoul Roth, an English 382 student. Members of the cast are Vick Wiening as Oedipus; Mary Mackin, Jocasta; Richard (Ric) Black, Creon. Other members ai’e Ted Castle, Gene Stubblefield, Bill Huettel, Bill Stuart and Carthel Perdue. Class of ’14 Sets Reunion Saturday The class of ’14 will hold its 40th anniversary in a joint re union with the classes of ’15 and ’16 this weekend. More than 100 persons are ex pected to attend, acording to J. B. (Dick) Hervey former students association executive secretary. The classes will register Satur day, Feb. 20 in the Memorial Stu dent Center there they will go as a group to a track meet that after noon. A joint dinner will be held for the group Saturday night, and a breakfast Sunday morning will conclude the reunion. J. Forest Runge of Cristola, president of the class of ’14, is in charge of the arrangements for his class. Dr. Guy Adriance, horticul tural depai’tment head and Col. E. E. Aldridge are in charge of ar rangements for the classes of ’15 and T6. Radio Series Has College Student Theme How college students meet individual problems is the general theme of the radio series “Report From the Dean,” starting Feb. 21 over WTAW. Scheduled to be carried over more than 20 stations of the Texas State network and five West Texas stations of the Cactus network as a public service feature, the series will run for 13 weeks. Wi-itten, directed and produced by Harry L. Kidd, jr. of the Eng lish department, the programs have a cast of 15 people. Bob Hol- lenbaugh, student announcer on the WTAW staff, plays the part of the dean in the dramatic series. “We owe a vote of thanks to the staffs of KORA and WTAW radio stations for their cooperation in helping us to prepare the series,” Kidd said. For the third successive spring, the Texas State network is carry ing a radio series originating at A&M, Kidd said. TISA Sets Meet At U of H Feb. 13 The executive committee of the Texas Intercollegiate Student as sociation has chosen the Univer sity of Houston as the site of its executive council meeting, Feb. 13. A&M members on the TISA com mittee are Frank Ford, F. E. (Sonny) Tutt, Howard Childers, and B. A. (Scotty) Parham. February meeting of the council will be the last before the 1954 state convention. Basic policies of the association and district pro jects will be discussed at the meet ing. Registration will begin at 8 a. m. in the University library on the Houston campus. Housing will be available on the Houston campus at a minimum of $2.00 per night. Meals will be. available in the university cafe teria. Police School Sets Graduation Date The Texas Municipal Police school Feb. 26 will graduate 25 police officers representing 17 Texas cities. Sponsored by the Engineering Extension service, the four week course gives officers both practical and classroom instruction in funda mentals of law enforcement. Wallace D. Beasley of the ex tension service is coordinator of police training. He served five years in the Texas highway patrol before coming here. Instructors in the school are from various law enforcement agencies. The next school starts May 3. FSA Board Plans Budget Approval The executive board of the Former Students association will approve their budget for opera tions in 1954 at their regular spring meeting here Feb. 20 — 21. The board will also hear a com mittee report on the interfaith campus chapel project and discuss reports from the archives com mittee and the by-laws committee, said J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive secretai’y. Plans for the class reunions this year will be made and the annual meeting of the Association, held annually in May, will be discussed, Hervey said. ZOO FURNISHES WAR BONNETS DALLAS (A 5 )—Eagles are get ting scarce in these paits or Indians aren’t the eagle - eyed marksmen they used to be. So says Dallas zoo man Laurence Curtis. Ten Indians from Anadarko, Okla., reservation visited the zoo to gather cast-off tail feathers from the floors of the eagle cakes. They use them to make war bonnets.