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Number 188: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1954
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Ridgeway Will
Guest of Honor
For Military Ball
Committee Postpones
Publications Dee isi on
Con. Matthow B. Ridgeway will
be the main guest for the Military
ball weekend activities, March 5
and 6.
Ridgeway, who is army chief of
staff, will lead a group of dist
inguished guests from Washington,
including sixth district congress
man Olin (Tiger) Teague of Col
lege Station.
The ' guests will arrive by air
plane at 6:45 p. m. March 5. A
tentative schedule of events for
them includes a dinner with the
president, the Combat Ball, the
Military day review, and the Mili
tary ball. x
Coming with Ridgeway will be
Maj. Gen Bryan L. Milburn, special
assistant to the chief of staff for
'reserve components; Brig. Gen.
Anthony J. D. Biddle, special as
sistant to the chief of staff; Brig.
Gen. Renaldo Van Brunt, deputy
assistant to the chief of staff for
reserve components; Lt. Col. Joe
City Planning
Move Against
Untagged Dogs
The city council last night
instructed City Manager Ran
Boswell to crack down on the
stray dogs in College Station.
Boswell was asked by the
council to enforce the city ordi-
tiance requiring all dogs to have
license and rabies vaccination tags.
Boswell said he would take action
nn the matter beginning Wednes
day.
The action was brought before
the council by Joe Orr. He said
he had noticed a number of stray
dogs in the city that did not have
any tags.
“Unless the city takes action
against these dogs, there is a pos
sibility of a rabies epidemic,” Orr
said.
Boswell said each dog must be
vaccinated each year against ra
bies. In order for a person to get
a city dog license, Boswell said, a
receipt for a vaccination must be
presented at the city hall.
The recommendation to the city
manage] 1 asked that he “collect, im
pound and dispose of dogs without
tags.”
Mayor Ernest Langford asked
The Battalion to publicize the
council’s action so that people
[night have a chance to have their
dogs vaccinated.
Boswell did not say just how the
ordinance would be enforced, but
he indicated the possibility of han
dling it entirely through the police
department.
Orr suggested that the council
ask the college to cooperate in the
move to pick up untagged dogs.
No definite action was taken on
this proposal.
Hollingsworth, executive, office of
the chief of legislative laison; Maj.
M. A. Field, Rodgeway’s aide; and
Lt. Col. Kamel Atalay, Turkish
military attache.
Hollingsworth is an A&M former
student, class of 1939.
Col. Joe E. Davis, A&M com
mandant, said that this was an in
complete guest list, since other
military officials from other parts
of the country had been invited,
and also probably more men would
come from Washington.
Ridgeway, famous as “the fight-
in’ general with the grertades”, has
been army chief of staff since last
\ugust. Before his appointment to
that position he was supreme com
mander of the allied powers in
Eu rope.
During the Korean war, he was
commander of the eighth army,
replacing Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walk
er, who was killed in a jeep ac
cident. He was promoted from this
position to supreme commander of
the United Nations forces in
Korea and commander-in-chief of
the Far East command in Japan.
During World War II Ridgeway,
us commander of the 82nd air
borne infantry, was responsible for
planning and carrying o\it the first
large- scale airborne assault in
history—the attack on Sicily from
North Africa.
Later in World War II he com
manded the 28th airborne corps in
Belgium.
A graduate of West Point,
Ridgeway is married and has a 5-
year-old son, Matthew B. Jr.
Among Ridgeway’s medals are
the distinguished service cross with
an oak leaf cluster, the distinguish
ed service medal with two oak leaf
clusters, the silver star with an
oak leaf cluster, the legion of
mei’it, and the bronze star with an
oak leaf cluster.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway
Langford To Run
For Mayor Again
Custer Dies Again
In Movie Tonight
The A&M Film society will show
“They Died With Their Boots On”
at 7:30 p. m. tonight in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom.
Starring Errol Flynn and Olivia
De Haviland, the film is based on
the life of Gen. G. A. Custer and
his death at Little Big Horn.
The society was unable to get
the foreign film originally sched
uled for tonight.
College Plans
Addition to New
PE Building
Another building will def
initely be added to the A&M
physical education plant, said
W. H. Badgett, manager of
physical plants for the A&M
system.
Bids for construction of the
building, to be built instead of re
modeling the present DeWare field
house, will be examined by the
board of directors at their April 26
meeting.
College officials hope the new
building will be cheaper than re
modeling DeWare field house.
The move was decided oh when
it was discovei-ed that proposed
changes in DeWare field house
would cost nearly as much as con-
sti’uction of a completely new build
ing.
Joe Orr jr., construction supei'-
intendent on the physical education
building, said the proposed build
ing would not be visible from inside
the new building. He added that
the only.thing fans will see on the
south wall of the new gym “for
many years,” will be the asbestos
sheeting.
The proposed building is expect
ed to cost around $700,000, Badgett
said. The new physical education
building cost $1.1 million.
Attached only by Corridors to. the
south side of the new building, the
proposed addition will have rooms
for fencing, boxing, weight-lifting
and other indoor spoils.
• College Station Mayor Ernest
Langford and Councilmen Marion
Pugh, Joe Sorrells, and A. P.
Boyett have announced as candi
dates for re-election.
At the city council meeting last
night Langford told the council he
would run for mayor only if the
three councilmen who come up for
re-election would also run. Lang-
ford said he would not run if any of
the three councilmen planned to Van
for mayor.
None of the councilmen up for
re-election said they had planned
to run for mayor. The three men
Building Products
Club Sets Banquet
The Building Products Marketing
club will hold a banquet at 6:30
p. m. Wednesday in the Memoidal
Student Center assembly room.
Gene Ebersole, executive vice
president of Texas Lumbermans as
sociation; P. J. Goodnight, vice
president Buell Lumber company of
Dallas; I. Olshan, president of
Olshan Demolishing company of
Houston; R. V. Richards, co-owner
of Richards and Krueger Lumber
company of New Branfels; and
Marion Pugh, owner of Pugh Lum
ber company of College Station
will be guests at the banquet.
All building products market
ing majors or all those interested
are to attend.
An open forum for questions
relating to the building products
marketing field will be held im
mediately after the banquet.
A&M Will Compete
In Bridge Contest
A&M and 171 other colleges and
universities in the country will
compete in the National Intercol
legiate Bridge tournament Feb. 18.
Teams at the school will play
hands that have been prepared
and mailed to them.
A&M winners in 1953 were War
ren Sexton, James Rackel, Luke
Senioi; Jr. and David Williams.
then signed the forms announcing
their candidacy.
Langford will complete his 12th
year as mayor this year.
Pugh is the councilman from
ward one, the Southside district;
Sorrells is councilman from ward
two, the Cpllege Hills district; and
Boyett is councilman from ward
three, the north side.
Telephone Rate Increase
At the meeting last night the
council also passed an ordinance
authorizing an increase in tele
phone rates, to be effective with
the May'' billing of the company.
All rates were raised except busi
ness and residence extension
charges.
The increases are as follows:
business, one party, $1.75; busi
ness, two party, $1; residence, one
party, 75 cents; residence, two
party, 75 cents; residence, four
party, 25 cents.
Sewer Planned
W. D. Fitch came before the
council to ask the city to provide
better sewerage for his porperty
in the Holick addition. The city
passed a motion agreeing to “lay
at city expense, a six—inch sewer
line in block three of the Holick
additiqn and also a six-inch line in
Park Place if it will fit in the
master sewerage plan under con
sideration.
Otherwise the line in Park Place
will be paid by Fitch”
Block three is bordered by Park
Place, Glade, Anna and Timber
streets.
The city motion further read,
“W. D. Fitch agi'ees to lay a six-
inch sewer line at his expense to
a sewer wet well, install an ade
quate pump, and connect to the city
sewer line in the alley of block
three, Oakwood addition.”
Block three of the Oakwood addi
tion is the first block east of Tim
ber street.
The city agreed to “pay operat
ing cost and maintenance of the en
tire project.”
E. L. Williams, 400 Walton East,
asked the council to i - elocate an
alley running through his pro
perty. The council, however, defer
red action on the request until the
next meeting.
In other moves taken by the
council, the city manager and the
mayor were authorized to renew a
note at the College Station bank.
The note is for $4,598.81.
ij-ppcG ASSOCIATION OFFICERS—Shirley Yancey (left
center) of Kilgore college, first president of the Texas
tAVinr College Association, looks over an edition of The
Ro+tulion with Helen Dillon of Tarleton State College, the
a^)ciation^s^se^etary. John Cameron (left) of Arling
ton State college, vice president of the new group looks
over Miss Yanfey’s shoulder as does Wayne Dean, A&M
senior who was chairman tor the Junior College Press
conference. — *—*— —
Philippine Specialists
Take Training Here
Three Philippine vocational edu
cation specialists are spending
three months here observing and
studying Engineering Extension
service methods in foreman and
supervisor training.
Editors Argue Against
White-Landiss Plan
The fight to save student publications from what cam
pus editors fear is censorship rolled into action again yester
day and whipped down an eight point plan for a special com
mittee over the college newspaper, magazines and yearbook.
The eight man group, appointed from the Student Life
committee to find out if a publications committee is needed,
voted to hold its decision until after Feb. 22. It was also
decided to ask the SLC if Roland Bing, last year’s director
of Student Publications, now on leave of absence, should be
invited to A&M to advise the group.
Bing, who wrote a letter to C. G. (Spike) White, group
member and Student Activities director, recommending that
♦■action be postponed until next
semester, is considered an ex-
Hold It, Rev;
Council After
Stray Dogs
College Station has declared
“war” on Aggie Mascot Rev
eille.
Last night the city council
moved to crack down on the
stray dog population in the
city in an effort to get all
dogs vaccinated against rabies.
Councilman Joe Orr, who
brought up the matter, sug
gested that the college be in
cluded and asked to cooperate.
He pointed out that there are
many stray dogs on the cam
pus without tags.
“All these dogs should be
impounded,” he said. “And if
the Aggies aren’t interested
enough in Reveille to buy her
tags then she should be picked
up too.”
Many Uses Seen
For New PE Plant
A&M’s new $1.1 million physical
education plant is comparable in
facilities and construction features
to field houses costing from £wo
to six time as much, said Joe Orr,
jr. ’45, construction superintendent
on the job.
He told the College Station Lions
club yesterday that the building
should be ready for occupancy by
March 1.
Farnsworth and Chambers, con
struction company on the job, will
be working on finishing touches to
the building until April 1, Orr said.
“A&M is getting a coliseum and
a concert hall as well as an incom
parable gymnasium for the price.
When completed, the building is
adaptable for basketball, tennis,
Sophomores Start
Sweetheart Filing
Filings began yesterday for
sophomore class sweetheart.
The sweetheart will be selected
from five finalists at the Sopho
more ball, April 3. The five fina
lists will be selected from the pic
tures turned in at the office of
student activities.
Deadline for turning in pictures
will be Friday, March 19. There is
no limit to the size or number of
pictures turned in,
Included with the picture should
be the girl’s name, home address,
age, height, weight, bust, waist,
hips, eye color and hair color.
The name of the person turning
in the picture and his dormitory
address should also be with the
picture.
Final judging will be on the
basis of looks, personality and
general attractiveness, said Jan
Broderick, class social secretary.
Military Day Practice
Review Set Thursday
There will be a practice review
at drill period Thursday.
Army units will carry rifles.
Sabers, guidons and the colors W’ill
be carried.
Class B uniform with helmet
liners will be worn. Juniors, sopho
mores, and freshmen will wear
khaki ties and belts. Senior boots
will not be worn.
The review will be in prepara
tion for the Military Day review,
said Roy Sullivan, corps opei’ations
officer. -
volleyball, gymnastics, concerts,
assembly programs and other
events,” Orr said.
“The acoustics are good. They
were included in original plans for
the building. This is one of the
best-planned buildings I have ever
worked on,” he said.
The building would be impracti
cal for rodeos and stock shows be
cause it would take 350 cubic yards
of dirt to fill the floor to a depth
of six ipches, Orr said.
The building can be easily air-
conditioned, Orr said. The only
thing to be done in the way of
remodeling would be the piping in
of refrigerant and the addition of
air conditioning units, he said.
Capacity of the building for spec
tator events is 9,000 persons. Bas
ketball goals are of swing-up con
struction, Orr said.
It will take about a day to pick
up and lay down the portable bas
ketball floor which is now installed
in the gym, Orr said.
“While Mr. Spence (manager of
physical plants) was at Syracuse
university last week, he saw a crew
of eight men pick up and lay down
a floor about half the size of this
one in about two hours for each
operation,” said Oi-r. “It is a mat
ter of the men working on the
floor becoming accustomed to work
ing with it,” he said.
The floor is lined off for two
basketball courts, two tennis courts,
volleyball courts and badminton
courts.
When asked by a member of the
Lions club if the roof would blow
away as has the one on the Rice
gymnasium on several occasions,
Orr said “nothing short of a tor
nado” would harm the roof on the
new building.
Insignia Contest
Ends Thursday at 5
Seven insignias have been paint
ed on the side of Loupot’s Trading
Post, after an offer by Loupot to
give $5 for the first sign painted
there and for the best Sign.
Three Battalion staff members
will judge the insignias after the
contest deadline, 5 p. m. Thursday.
The winner will be announced in
Friday’s Battalion.
The dual contest was for the
best-drawn insignia and for the
unit that painted its insignia on the
building first after the contest
started at noon Monday.,
pert on student publications
problems. The next meeting
of the SLC is on Feb. 22.
These decisions developed after
verbal spankings were given to a
plan presented by White and Dr.
C. W. Landiss, group chairman.
The Landiss-White proposal ad
vocated a committee to advise and
assist the editors. It stated that
no censorship would be used.
It would pass on the qualifica
tions for editors and handle the
financial end of publications work.
Meetings •yvould be held on the first
Monday of each month and could
be called by the chaiman or at the
request of two members. The com
mittee would assist the SLC in
supervising publications.
This committee would be made
up of three student members of
the SLC and three faculty mem
bers.
The director of Student Publica
tions and the editors would serve
as ex-officio members without vote.
The publications director would be
secretai-y.
Landiss said he di'ew up the
functions. He said that they were
just his ideas on how such a com
mittee might work if it was ever
decided one was needed. He said
other group members could have
brought suggestions.
Opposition came from a number
of editors and D. D. Burchard,
head of the journalism department
who had been invited in an advi
sory capacity.
Considered Incompetence
Jerry Bennett, asked what would
happen if the editors did not fol
low the committee’s advice. Lan
diss said such action could be con
sidered incompetence. Editors can
be removed for incompetence.
Burchard said this function
might be understood to mean cen
sorship of thought, instead of fact.
However he explained he was not
accusing anyone of trying to cen
sor publications.
Earlier Burchard said censorship
did not mean just marking out
copy with a pencil.
Landiss said he did not mean the
word “advice” in any manner other
than helping the editors. The com
mittee chairman said he thought
that six people could sometimes
reach a better decision on a sub
ject than two. He was comparing
the proposed publications commit
tee with The Battalion and Aggie-
land co-editorships.
Landiss told The Battalion this
morning that someone had pointed
out the proposed power to assist
the editors might lead to censor
ship. He asked that the work “as
sist” be removed from his recom
mendations.
He said he had not meant this
word to imply possible censorship.
He said he would never vote for
such a committee unless an anti
censorship provision was included.
Barent C. (Dutch) Dutcher, Ag-
gieland co-editor, argued against
not giving the editors and publica
tions director a vote on the pro
posed committee. He explained
that these men were the only ones
who fully understood publications
work. Dutcher said that if such a
plan were adopted, the editors and
publications director would only be
“puppets.”
Everett Besch, editor of The
Southwestern Veterinarian said he
thought such a committee might
interfere with the present func
tions of the publications director.
Ed Stern, editor of the Agricul
turist, pointed out that his maga
zine, The Commentator and The
Engineer are already responsible to
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