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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1954
Price Five Cents
Journalism Cluh
To Fete Publishers
At Coffee Tonight
» A coffee for members of the
^ Texas Press association will be
given at 7:30 tonight in the Me
morial Student Center.
. The coffee will be sponsored by
the Journalism club.
More than 100 members of TPA
will be here for the fifth Annual
Mechanical conference tomorrow.
At this conference, Howard N.
Author Says
US Neglected
Latin Nations
. The United States has miss
ed a golden opportunity by
* neglecting the South Ameri
can republics so long, Miss
- Bernita Harding, author and
traveler, told the Bryan-College
Station Knife and Fork Club Tues
day night.
“The Monroe Doctrine, by which
the United States sought to keep
European influence out of the
western hemisphere, was eventual-
\y accepted 200 per cent by the
Latin Americans, but eventually
resulted in a separation of view
point between them and the north
ern nations,” she said.
For hundreds of years North
* Americans have looked to Europe
and by defalut have forced Latin
Americans to do likewise, she said.
This lias prevented cultural ties
between the two American Con-
* tinents', Miss Harding added.
Miss Harding, born in .Aus
tria, was reared' in Mexico whei'e
$he got the material for her first
iook “Phantom Crown”.
The next meeting will be at the
Parker dining hall in Bryan. Nich
olas Nayaradi, former minister of
finance of Hungary, will be the
''speaker.
•‘Gershwin Festival'
.To He Town Uall
The music of George Gershwin
will be featured in the next Town
Hall performance, Feb. 25.
The program, ejititled “A Ger
shwin Festival”, will be presented
by the Gershwin Concert orchestra.
The organization is now on its se
cond tour of the United States.
Robert Zeller will conduct the
group of 30 musicians. Also featur-
rd will be several soloists.
Two performances will be given
«t Guion hall. The fii’st perfor
mance will be held at 7 p. m. and
the second at 9 p. m.
Tickets will be on sale at stu
dent activities office and at the
“door.
Campus Will Get
3,290 Feet of Curb
Three thousand two hundred and
ninety feet of curbing will be con
structed on Houston and Ross
streets and around the System ad
ministration building, said C. K.
Layton, engineer for the project.
No deadline was set for the
work and is to be done at the con-
tractors convenience. The bid that
was taken was two dollars per
linear foot.
Unnecessary breaks in curbing
and old driveways will be included
in the contract, Layton said. ^
* Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Cloudy to partly cloudy today
'with continued rain. High yester
day 69. Low this morning 64,
King, nationally famous typo
grapher, will talk on effective
makeup.
King’s talk will include how to
get the most effective makeup with
existing type supplies at the lowest
possible cost.
President David H. Morgan will
welcome the publishers at a lunch
eon after a morning of talks on
production problems.
Ed L. Williams, vice director of
the engineering extension service,
will speak on time and motion
studies as applied to newspapef
production.
Roy Craig of the Stamford
American and Jake Smyth of the
Liberty Vindicator will open the
program at 8:30 a. m. with their
discussion of “Shop Kinks.”
Hal Bredlow of Stamps-Conhaim
advertising service will discuss
stereotyping, and Rigby Owen of
The Conroe Courier will talk on
“Should You Build a New Plant.”
Head Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant
will speak to the group at the
luncheon.
During the afternoon session
there will be a panel discussion on
shop problems. It will be moderated
by Williams,
The conference is sponsored by
the journalism department and the
TPA. D. E. Newsom is conference
director.
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III* AND OVER — Three members of the Swedish National
Gymnastics team do a flip in formation. The team will
perform here Tuesday night.
Swedish Gym Team
Perform .Here
HOWARD KING
Typography Expert
Sweden’s world famous gym
nastics team, currently on a nation
wide tour of the United States, will
perform in DeWare field house
next Tuesday night at 8:30 p. m.
The 16-man team will be ac
companied by Henry Allard,
member of the Swedish Parlia
ment. Also accompanying the team
is Olle Areborn, manager of the
Swedish Gymnastics fedei’ation.
Eunnar Dryselius’and his family
from Houston will be on hand for
the team’s performance. Dryselius
is Consul General of Sweden for
the South and Southwestern United
States.
The program will feature tumbl
ing, vaulting, gymnastics with the
use of parallel and horizontal bars,
and “free gymnastics”. Tickets for
the attraction are 50 cents each
and all proceeds will go to the
A&M tumbling team.
End of Week
Four Churches Set
Last RE Services
Four local churches will hold
services Friday night in conclusion
of Religious Emphasis week.
“The object of the meeting to
night is to bring about the con
tinuation of religious feelings that
have been brought into the stu
dents, and to answer their ques
tions’,, said Gordon Gay, director
of the YMCA who is in charge of
Religious Emphasis week.
The Lutheran Student associa
tion is conducting a special service
of Thanksgiving at 7:30 p. m. in
the Lutheran Student center. The
service will be conducted entirely
by students.
Students taking part in the ser
vice are John Stacha, Bernard Hal-
version, Theo Lindig, Richard
Fischer, Luther Dube and Glenn
Specht.
The Presbyterian church will
hold a special forum at 7:15 p. m.
conducted by Dr. Louis Evans,
principal speaker of Religious Em
phasis week. Evans subject will be
guided by questions from the
Manke To Speak
To AIEE Tuesday
A non-technical discussion on
how to get rid of a high voltage
arc will be the theme of a talk by
George H. Manke next Tuesday at
7:30 p. m. in the electrical engi
neering building.
Manke, chief laboratory and
training engineer of the Line
Material company of South Mil
waukee, Wise., will talk on “Sui
cide of a High Voltage, Arc.” He
will use slides, demonstrations of
an actual fuse operation and high
speed 16 mm movies of arc inter
ruptions.
Sponsored by the American In
stitute of Electrical engineers,
Manke’s lecture will be followed
by a question and answer period.
audience, and questions may either
be asked directly or written.
A commitment service will be
presented by the Presbyterian Stu
dent league. Prayer will be offered
by Fair Colvin, president of the
Presbyterian Student league, and
invocation by Frank Clark.
At the close of the program an
invitation to offer your life to
Christ will be conducted by the
Rev. Charles Workman as he leads
the audience in “Stand Up for
Clirist.” The program will colse
with a hymn of dedication.
A social hour will follow in the
Presbyterian Student Center.
The College Avenue Baptist
church will conduct services at
7:30 p. m. The Rev. Bruce Mclver,
Religious Emphasis week leaden,
will be guest speaker. His subject
will deal with Christian life as re
lated to student life.
Ide Trotter jr., will preside over
the services, and music will be di
rected by Bob . Bond.
Rabbi Rosenbaum, a religious
emphasis week leader, will conduct
services and be guest speaker at
the regular 7:15 p. m. Friday night
Jewish serwices at the YMCA
chapel. His subject will be, “What I
Like and Dislike About Being
Jewish.”
‘Aggieland Going
Smoothly’ -- Holt
“The Aggieland is running
smoothly and according to
schedule,” said Allan “Bootsie”
Hohlt, co-editor.
The senior and freshmen picture
schedules have been completed.
Junior pictures are expected to be
completed by the end of the month.
The sophomore picture schedule
will start next month.
Club pictures started yesterday
and the Who’s Who’ pictures are
scheduled throughout next week.
“The military section of the Ag
gieland will probably be the First
unit completed. It will be ready
when all snapshots are in. This
should be sometime in April,”
Hohlt said.
Indochina Peace Move
Planned .by Big Four
The attraction was originally
scheduled for 8 p. m. according to
C. G. (Spike) White, manager of
student activities. The performance
is to be held at 8:30 p. m. due to
the Basic Division open house
which will be ended by 8:15 p. m.
Prayer Day
Observed
Here March 5
A&M will observe the World
Day of Prayer March 5 with
one minute of silence over the
whole campus.
The college whistle will blow
at 10 a. m. to signal the start
of the minute of silence. The
whistle will blow again at
10.01 to signal the end of the
minute.
Hymns will be played over
the public address system of
the Memorial Student Center
starting at 9:50 a. m.
Persons in 100 countries all
over the world will observe
tbe minute of silence at the
same time.
Korean Peace Conference
Set in Geneva, April 26
BERLIN—(IP)—The Big- Four foreign ministers headed
home from their Berlin meeting today to prepare for another
conference in two months—this time to seek peace in Korea
and Indochina. They wrote off any change of agreement on
European problems for the present.
The deadlock at Panmunjom was bypassed by the decis
ion yesterday to open the long-debated Korean peace con
ference in Geneva April 26 with Red China among the
nations to participate, not as a sponsor but by invitation.
The ministers agreed the problem of ending the seven-
year-old war in Indochina “shall also be discussed’’ at the
conference.
The top diplomats of the?
United States, Britain, France
and Russia promised also to
“hold an exchange of views”
on world disarmament under
a resolution adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly last
Nov. 28. This resolution proposed
secret big-po2 talks to speed arms
reduction.
But the problems of Germany,
Austria and European security
were left unsolved when Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov,
the chairman of the final session,
rapped out adjournment at 7 p.m.
Secretary of State Dulles, due in
Washington by plane late today,
voiced “a large measure of re
gret” at the failures, which he
attributed to a fundamental differ
ence of views between the East
and West.
“Our failures,” Dulles said, “are
of a kind which coidd not have
been avoided by mere diplomatic
or negotiating skills at this con
ference. . . . All of our basic dif
ferences have been revolved
around the question of whether it
was right, or indeed safe, to give
men and nations a genuine free
dom of choice.
PL Instructor
To Lead Section
Of Conference
An A&M professor will lead
a section of a conference next
week with 600 members re
presenting 13 states.
Herman B. Segrest, asso
ciate professor of physical edu
cation, will be the summarizer for
the men’s athletic section at the
Southern District convention of the
Fop Engineer
To Be Named
Next Thursday
Local professional engi
neers will announce their
choice of the “Engineer of
the Year” at a banquet next
Thursday.
The banquet will be to celebrate
National Engineer’s week, Feb. 21-
27.
All local engineers and their
wives have been invited to attend
the banquet at the “Oaks” in Bry
an.
John P. Oliver, president of tbe
Brazos chapter of the Texas So
ciety of Professional Engineers and
a professor in tbe engineering
drawing department, is selling
tickets for the banquet.
M. A. Coleman at the Bryan City
Engineer’s office also is selling
tickets for the affair.
Ernest Langford, mayor of Col
lege Station, issued a proclamation
Wednesday praising the engineer
ing pi’ofession and setting aside
Feb. 21-27 as Engineers’ Week in
College Station.
Tbe name of the “Engineer of
the Year” will be announced in The
Battalion next Thursday.
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Western Powers
The Western Powers were will
ing to place trust in the German
and Austrian peoples. The Soviet
Union was not.”
Both sides gave ground on the
Korean conference decision in Ber
lin. Molotov dropped his promo
tion of Red China as a sponsoring
power.
The United States waived its
demand that the conference be two
sided, with Russia sitting in only
as a Communist belligerent.
The closing conference commu
nique said the Geneva parley
would be open to the Big Four,
South Korea, North Korea and oth
er nations whose ti’oops fought in
Korea. This excludes such neu
trals as India.
‘Whiskey Bridge’
Being Replaced
Jone’s bridge, better known as
‘Whisky Bridge’, is being replaced.
Texas Highway department re
sident engineer Joseph M. McLain
said the load limit will be 20 tons.
The limit for the old bridge is
five tons.
The new 643-foot bridge will be
located so as to eliminate danger
ous curves on both sides of the
Brazos river, McLain said.
The present detour will be closed
next spring when construction is
completed. Business establishments
located at the old bridge will be
by-passed. *
General specifications for the
new, modern structure are 541 feet
and nine inches of continous steel
girder, one 50 foot eye beam span
on each end and a reinforced con
crete deck with a 26—foot road
way.
'
HERMAN B. SEGREST
Conference Leader
American Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recrea
tion.
This convention annually brings
together leaders and workers in
the fields of health, physical edu
cation and recreation.
The purpose of the convention is
“to impi'ove educational pi’oeesses
through an exchange of ideas and
experiences.”
Segrest has been at A&M for
nine years, and has been a member
of his profession for the past 17
years.
He did his undergraduate work
at North Texas State and his grad
uate work there, at A&M and Tex
as university.
Practice Teaching
Starts for 62
Sixty-two senior agricultural
education majors from A&M will
be practice teaching in 31 Texas
high schools from March 1-12,
Schools in all parts of Texas
will be hosts to these student
teachers with the exception of the
Panhandle, Far West and Valley
regions.
“These student teachers must
have senior classification in order
to qualify for this two week prac
tice teaching period”, said Dr. M.
N. Abrams of the agricultural edu
cation department.
April l Deadline
Set for Theses
The final date for submitting
theses and dissertations to the
Graduate School will be April 1,
said Ide P. Trotter, dean of the
Graduate School.
The papers must be approved by
the student’s committee. They will
be read by the appointed faculty
readers during the spring recess.
The final examination must be
before May 7, to allow proper
clearance for graduation.
March 1 is the deadline for
making applications for a degree
to be granted in May.
Radio Series Begins
Sunday on 24 Stations
Former Student
Watches Review
Col. James D. Ogltree of Ft. Lee,
Va. watched the practice corps re
view here yesterday.
A former student, class of ’25,
Ogltree said the corps compares
favoi-ably with the corps 29 years
ago.
While on the campus Ogltree
went to see his old room in Leg
gett hall.
He is here on a routine laison
visit from the quartermaster corps.
Females Still
Sorry, Boys,
By RUSSELL CONDON
Battalion Staff Writer
A little girl goat who wanted to
be a co-ed Aggie has been forced
to leave the campus.
Jack Herbig, Ronnie Hayes, Bud
Williams and Charlie Davenport,
juniors in B field artillery, found
a small Angola goat on a road near
Del Rio.
The goat, which Was weak from
starvation, was stashed in the base
ment of dormitory 3 and nursed
back to health with milk from the
mess hall.
The goat was to be the official
mascot of B field, but complications
arose.
The housing office heard that
Can 't Stay;
Got to Go
there was a goat in the dorm, and
Capt. Emmett Trant, counselor,
issued and order to “remove the
beast from the basement.”
The goat was placed in a pen out
side dormitory three, but according
to college regulations it could
never have qualified for a contract,
so it was ordered off the campus.
Harry McMenemy, agriculture
major from Houston, rescued the
refugee mascot and it is now living
in Houston.
If anyone in the College Sta
tion area would like to keep the
goat for these men, they would ap
preciate it.
“There are enough women in
Houston without taking 'her’ down
there,” they said.
“A Report From the Dean,”
dramatized stories of typical col
lege students and their problems,
will be launched Sunday, February
21, over more than 24 i*adio sta
tions around the state.
The weekly programs will be
boadcast for 13 consective weeks.
It is the thii-d successive spring
that stations of the Texas State
netwoik have canned a radio series
originating here. This year out
lets of the Cactus network have
joined in presenting the programs
as a public service feature.
Written, directed and produced
by Harry L. Kidd, jr. of the Eng
lish department, the shows have
a cast of 15 persons, including stu
dents, student wives, staff and
faculty members of the college, and
staff members of radio station
WTAW.
Bob Hollenbaugh, student an
nouncer on the WTAW staff, plays
the part of the dean in the drama
tizations.
“A Report From the Dean” takes
a fictionalized case-histoi*y ap
proach to problems faced by col
lege students.
Stations in the following cities
will carry the broad casts: Waco,
Longview, Fort Worth, Texarkana,
Austin,. Tyler, Abilene, Brown-
wood, San Angelo, Greenville,
Paris, Sherman, Dallas, Big
Spring, McAllen, San Antonio,
Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Houston,
Pecos, Odessa, Monahans and Al
pine.
Officials of the two networks
said other stations probably will
be added for a later starting date
on the series.
BSU Nominations
Not Definite Yet
No definite conclusions have
been made as to the nominations of
students for the Baptist Student
Union council committee, said Cliff
Harris, BSU director.
Harris is serving as advisor for
the nominating committee. Presi
dent Dave Mitchell will act as
chairman.
Other members of the nominat
ing committee are Paul Roper,
business major from Dallas who is
now program director, and Jim
Trimple, petroleum engineering
major from Texarkana. He is pro
motional director of the council.
Two previous meetings have nar
rowed the prospects down. Inter
views have started on those remain
ing.
Announcements of the choices
may be made next week, Harris
said.
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