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Number 186: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1954
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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.