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Circulated Daily To J)0 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 198: Volume 54 PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1954 Published Ry A&M Students For 75 Years Price 5 Cents jF o u r Ga ml id a tes Certified To Fill Ba ttalion Positions Henry L. Scott Four students were certified last night as candidates in the general election for acting co-editors of The Battalion. The four certified were Harri Baker and Chuck Neighbors as candidates for corps editor and Jon Kinslow and Bob Boriskie as candidates for non-corps editor. The announcement of the certi fication came at a called meeting of the Student Life Committee. The meeting had been called at the request of Karl Elmquist manager of student publications to place their stamp of approval on those certified. In his preliminary' remarks to the committee Elmquist said, “In the position which I hold, 1 do not intend to play politics — student politics, faculty politics, administ ration politics, or any other kind of politics.” After making clear his situation to the committee Elmquist stated, “1 think an editorship must not be a political football. An editor who knows he was elected as a result of political intrigue will not be able to disregard or be uninfluenced by political considerations as he edits •—he will tend to slant and sup- Parker Chosen MSC President For Next Year Charley Parker was named president of the Memorial JStudent Center council a n d directorate Monday, by the MSC council. lie replaces John Samuels, this year’s president, and will assume office officially on April 22. Bud Whitney, sophomore industrial en gineering major from Big Spring, was named vice-president by the council. Parker, a junior electrical engi neering major from Amarillo, was chairman of the public relations group of the MSC directorate and has been in charge of the fund raising drive for the MSC’s tele vision sets. He is a disc jockey an announcer for WTAW. Named to group chairmen posi tions by the council were: Art—Cary Bourgeois; dance — Dick Wall; forum-—Bud Whitney; games — Doug Krueger; hobby, Carl Sherman; house, Richard Mc- Glaun; public relations, Murray Milner and music group—no de cision, will be decided by the coun cil at their April 8 meeting. Committee chairmen named by the council were: Audio—Howard Davis; crafts— A1 Covdes; radio—Wayne Lever- kuhn; camera—no decision. These committees are all part of the hob by group. Bowling — Taylor Wong and bridge—no decision. These two committees are part of the games group. Bill Willis was named chairman of the Junto committee, a part of the forum group. Don Friend ann Krueger were named council members. Two more students will be elected to the council from the student body in class elections during May. The newly formed Stamp com mittee, was added to the hobby group by the council. A chairman has not been named. New officers and chairmen will be formally installed at the MSC’s annual student banquet April 22. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Moslty cloudy today. Possible scattered showers early tomorrow. High yesterday 88. Low this morn ing 62. press the news, and freedom of the press which I have been told to help guard for The Battalion, will have been violated.” Elmquist then made clear that the decisions that were made were his own and said, “I think I need not again make clear 1 that the certifications are based on my per sonal decision that these, and only these, of the students considered for certification have the necessary qualification to serve as acting editors of The Battalion. Actual experinece on The Battalion in a position of responsibility is in my judgment the primary such con- sideration.” Aggie Play ers To Give Play March 22-24 The Ag-g-ie Players will pre- s e n t Sophocles’ “Oedipeus Rex” in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center on March 22-24 at 8:15 p.m. There will be two matinee per- formances. The production will be in the round in the Greek orthodox fashion. In the title role as Oedipeus is Vic Wierning making his debut as an Aggie Player. Supporting him are Rick Black as Creon, Mary Mnvkin as Jocusta, Gene Stubble field as Tiresias, Bill Stewart as the Corintheian messenger. Ted Castle as the Tyebian Herdsman, and Bill Hittle as the Tyebian serv ant. The chorus consists of Carthmen Perdue as Choragus and the mem bers are Pat Crqsland, Alan Sofje, Harry Gooding, Barbara Birdwell, Bill Swann, Don Powell, Don Fish er and Bob Zarbock. Eleanor Burchard has charge of the costumes, Fay Neale is hand ling accessories and is holding the script book. The set lights and all techni cal details of the production are being done by a class, English -382. The chorus is being trained by Vic tor Wiening. Directors Confirm Staff Replacements The appointments of 14 replace ments on the staff of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service were confirmed by the board of di rectors, Texas A&M College Sys tem. New appointees are: Vivian L. Bratcher, Negro county home dem onstration agent; Myrtle F. Brown, assistant CHDA; Billy M. Collier, assistant county agricultural agent; Mattie J. Crank and Patsy L. Gas ton, secretaries; Paul D. Herschler, assistant CAA; Mi's. Suzanne Holmes, clerk; James S. Herman, assistant CAA; Minnie H. Scott, Negro CHDA; Mrs. Rose Spriggs, stenographer; James W. Tackett, assistant CAA; Henri Vaughn, assistant CHDA; Mrs. Jolea Viguet and Mrs. Marcia Woody, stenographers. Maridages in the Bryan-College Station area are going on the rocks but the women love it. According to jewelers in this ai’ea, larger stones and flashier merchandise is the ti’end for wed ding and engagement rings. Highly peqiud medium colors in larger sizes are selling normal while fine merchandise is moving at the minimum said R. L. McCai 1 - ty, College Station jeweler. Pequid diamonds are imperfect while fine merchandise is perfect in its in ternal qualities. Pequid itself is a French word meaning trash. Most of the jewelers say that it depends on the person buying as to what size and price he pays for the ring. Rings between one- fourth and one carat sell the best while one-half is the most popular. Lai’ger stones in brilliant cuts are moving better due to the trend being for larger rings and fancier or flashier merchandise. Over the nation, the trend is for smaller diamonds while here they Scott To t loncerto By JOHN AKARD Henry L. Scott will present his “Concerto for Fun” on Town Hall tonight at 7:15 and 9:15 in Guion Hall. Tickets for both perform ances will be available at the door. Scott’s program combines humor Forest Service Has Boards Approval Recent appointments to the Tex as Forest Service have been con firmed by the board of directors, Texas A. and M. College System. These appointments are: Ima H. Galvin, stenographer in the Research and Education Dept.; Robert C. Edgington, assistant for ester, and George R. Chase, radio technician, in District 1 at Lin den; Peggy A. Johnson, clerk-dis patcher, and Andrew H. Riggs, ju nior crewman, in District 2 at Henderson; Dale D. Coleman, crewman, in District 3 at Lufkin; Richard E. Haas, assistant forester, Norman A. Bullock, and Edward C. Moore, crewman, in Distinct 4 at Wood- ville; Roy A. Holmes, Carter B. Hamilton and William Glenn, crew men, in Distinct 5 at Kirbyville; Jewel M. Pollard, educational of ficer, Ruel J. Lowe, radio tech nician, and Dow T. Clifton, crew leader, in District 6 at Conroe. Coleman, Hamilton, Glenn, Lowe and Clifton were appointed to new positions. All others are replace ments. Baker Takes Position In Bangkok, Thailand L. B. Baker, electrical appren ticeship specialist for the Texas Engineering Extension Service since March, 1949, has resigned to accept a similar position in Bang kok, Thailand. During the five years that Baker was with the Service he wrote in structional material for numerous electrical apprenticeship groups in cluding several located out-of-state. are for larger ones. So, come on girls, grab a man from Brazos and marry him before he gets away! Seniors Can Order Invitations Now May graduates may begin or dering graduation announcements March 15 in the office of student activities. White French fold invitations cost 25 cents for two. Cardboard and leather covered announcements containing a list of the candidates for graduation and “The Spirit of Aggieland” may be bought. White cardboard an nouncements aie 45 cents each. Maroon leather announcements are 95 cents each. Engraved cards cost $2.95 for 100. Printed cards are $1.25 for 100. The minimum order is 100. The deadline for ordering is April 12. Present T onight with piano artistry. He plays Chopin’s “Minute Waltz” and Rach maninoff’s “Polichinelle” as well as arrangement of his own entitled, “History of the Lost Chord,” “Si lent Movie Days” and “How to Compose a Popular Song.” For one Chopin number, Scott uses a grapefruit to help play the piano. He uses a ixul wig to mock the highbrow pianist and dons a pair of mittens while playing. Scott has established a world’s record for speed by playing 268 notes in 6 seconds—44% per sec ond. Pantomine plays its part in the Scott Concerto. He deserts the piano to do pantomines of a young man asking for a dance, a youth sewing on a button and “a devas tating number concerning a young lady taking a cold bath.” Paradoxically, Henry Scott is very serious about humor. “To project it artistically, one must strive to understand the whole illu sive and intangible realm of hu mor,” he contends. He pi'actices what he preaches in his recitals, where he ranges from pantomine to the spoken word from subtle sa- th'e to broad and riotous forms. He writes and arranges all his own material. Life magazine calls him the “Will Rogers of the Piano.” King Richmond To Reign Over Cotton Ball Dave Richmond has been selected to reign as King Cot ton for 1954. Richmond, a senior agron omy major from Raymon- darie, was chosen at a meeting of the Agronomy Society Tuesday night. Eight members to serve on his court were also named. The Cotton Court is composed of four seniors, three juniors, and one sophomore. Seniors are Jim Altus from Har lingen, Bill Andrews of Harlin gen, Andy Cuellar from Laredo, and Hal Hegi of Petersbui'g. The juniors are Eugene Buck- holts, Corpus Christi; Frank Ford, Lubbock; and Murray Milford, Honey Grove. The sophomore is Ken Richmond of Raymondville. Dave is a first lieutenant in Squadron 6, serving as flight com mander and was a first sergeant last year. King Cotton and his court will go to Denton March 27 to select a Queen from TSCW. They will also pick eight attendants for Her Majesty for the gala event. The ceremonies will be held during in- *termission at the Cotton Ball, which will be Friday, April 23rd. The dance, weather permitting, will be in the Grove with an at mosphere of the Old South and the music of Frankie Carl and his or chestra. The Cotton Ball has been one of the year’s social highlights here at A&M since it was first begun back in 1932 at the suggestion of “Cotton Joe” Mogford and three students. This is it’s 20th occas ion. This promises to be the most colorful Ball yet as the pageant will not be included. » Engagement Rings Have Larger Stones By RALPH COLE Ike Slams McCarthy For Wrecking Parly Approves Flanders Talk Flaying McCarthy Tactics WASHINGTON — (^ — Presi dent Eisenhower Wednesday spoke out with the strongest criticism he has uttered publicly against Sei^. Joseph R. McCai'thy, (R-Win/). He warmly endorsed Tuesday’s Senate speech by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders# (R-Vt.), denouncing Sen. McCarthy’s tactics. Sen. Flanders charged that Mc Carthy was “doing his best to shatter” the Republican Party by raising “dust” and “racket” to divert the nation from “mortal danger” from without. The Presi dent Wednesday added to this his warning that the uproars Sen. PE Director At Arkansas Visits Campus Dr. Troy Hendricks, head of the phyiscal education department at the University of Arkansas was a visitor on the campus last Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Hendricks was here to ob serve the program and facilities of required physical education at the A&M College of Texas. This is the first of three colleges and universities he will visit. The oth ers are the University of Florida and the University of Illinois. Dr. Hendricks said that he se lected these institutions because they had the reputation of having the best required physical education program in the nation. Arkansas is planning to inaugurate a requir ed program for all Freshman and Sophomore students. At present only the students of the college of education are required to take phy sical education at Arkansas. Plans for facilities include the remodeling of the present field house, a new P.E. building for the women and a new indoor swimming pool. He was interested in P. L. Downs natatorium, the now obso lete plan for the remodeling of DeWare and the preliminary plan for the addition to the new physical education building. Dr. Hendricks said, “I have heard much of the required program at A&M, but I had no idea it was such a large program and you have so many fine outdoor facilities.” BLOOD RECORD CLAIMED MONTCLAIR, N. J. (A>>—Thomas L. Pier thinks he holds a world record for donating blood — 250 pints in the last 28 years. He gave his first donation to a fellow-player injm-ed in a football game in 1925. At one time, he donated three pints in 33 hours to a woman at Mountainside hospital here. The American Red Cross has honored him and he received a letter of com- 1 that mendation from his commanding Flanders referred to are jeopar dizing the administration’s pro- gram of positive action. While not necessarily giving ap- i proval to every word of the speech, the President told his news confer ence that Sen. Flanders had per formed a “service” by calling at tention to “the danger of us en gaging in internecine warfare and magnifying certain items of pro cedure and right and personal ag grandizement.” When asked about Adlai E. Stev enson’s comment in his speech at a Democratic conclave at Miami Beach last Satui’day that the Re publican Party was half Eisen hower and half McCarthy, the president replied: “At the risk of appearing ego tistical—and you can interpret it that way if you choose—I say non sense.” The President flatly disagreed with McCarthy in the latter’s de mand that the radio networks give him free time to answer Steven- soi’s speech. He said he thought tire networks “have certainly dis charged their responsibility for be ing impartial” in offering the Re publican National Committee an opportunity to reply. Nixon to Speak He made it plain furthermore that he had participated in the decision that Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon and not Sen. McCar thy should reply for the Republi can Party. The vice president Mull speak from Washington Saturday night over the NBC radio network and the CBS radio and television networks. As is his custom, the Pi’esident never mentioned McCarthy by name, but his press conference Wednesday mai’ked a distinct de parture from previous policy. Hei - e- tofore the President has steadfast ly refused to give answers Mdiich would clearly and unmistakably imply criticism of the Wisconsin chairman of the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee. But Wednesday he tackled the question about the Flanders speech without a flicker of hesitation. In fact, he said, he had expected the question to be asked and had pon- dei'ed his answers in advance. This is M^hat he said: Flanders Did Service “The Republican Party is the pai'ty of responsibility—so charged by the people of the United States in the elective process. And vdien Sen. Flanders points up the danger of us engaging in internecine war fare and magnifying certain items of procedure and right and person al aggrandizement and all such i questions to the point that M r e are endangering the program of action that all the leadership is agreed upon and M^e are trying to put across, then he is doing a service when he calls (attention to) the great danger to that kind of thing is happening.” The President said that he was Students May Enlist In Air Reserve Wing Colonel John A. Way of the Air Force ROTC Detachment announced this week that freshmen and sophomore stu dents who do not plan to apply for an advanced Air Force con tract, or junior or senior students M'ho do not have an advanced con tract, are now eligible for enlist ment in an Air Force Reserve Wing. Colonel Way pointed out that such enlistments will provide stu dents Math credit towards their eight year military service obliga tion under the Universal Military Training and Service Act and mm 11 also entitle them to enlist in the regular Air Force ahead of any applicants on the M^aiting list. Such an enlistment in the regular Air Force M’ould be in grade E-2 (Air man Third Class) provided they hold that rank or higher in the Air Force Reserve. The Professor of Air Science & Tactics said that students beUveen the ages of 17 and 25, inclusive, are eligible for the Reserve enlist ments, provided they have not re ceived a Selective Service classi fication of 1-A and are otherwise qualified. Those students interested in join ing an Air Force Reserve Wing should contact the Air Force Re- seiwe Training Center at Ellington AF Base, Houston, Texas, Head quarters 14th Air For-ce, Macon, Georgia, or Master Sergeant Luther E. Jeffers at the local Air Force Reserve unit; 3600 South College, phone 2-1903. officer in the Navy in World War II for blood donations he gave on leave. not attempting to “underMudte” every word of the Flanders speech because he had not read it all. Five Finalists Picked by Juniors The junior class last night nar rowed 30 class sweetheart appli cants down to the five finalists M'ho Avill be pi-esented at their dance March 20. Finalists ai - e Miss Beverly Brown, San Antonio, submitted by Dick Adams; Miss E 1 le n Pietravalle, Houston, submitted by David Strickler; Miss Shirley Pullin, Woodsboro, submitted by Hugh West; Miss Nell Copplege, Kilgore, submitted by Don Moon; and Miss Carl Ann Graham, Dallas, submitted by Gary Leslie. The class sweetheart will be picked from these finalists at the dance by a committee of judges from the class. The class officers and committee chairmen for the dance selected the finalists last night. The dance mmII be preceded by a banquet in Sbisa banquet room. The dance M’ill also be in Sbisa. The Aggieland orchestra will play for the dance. Leaves Granted Three Staff Men Ag Journalism Sets Scholarship Plan Texas A&M M’ill offer tM'o agri cultural journalism scholarships next year, beginning M;ith the fall term, Donald D. Burchard, journal ism department head, announced yesterday. The awards, $500 each for the school year, are to be paid for by the Clayton Fund, established by Agronomists Take April Field Trip Agronomy juniors and seniors Mill take a field trip through South Texas April 10th through 14th. This trip for all classified men in the department desiring to go has been substituted for the Cotton Tour, M’hich was made in previous years by only a few students se lected on competitive examinations. Proceeds from last year’s Cotton Pageant M’ill be used to help fi nance the trip, Mdiich mmII include points of agricultural interest in the southern part of the state. W. L. Clayton, foimer chairman of the Board of Endei-son, Clayton & Co. Candidates for the awards must have completed at least two years of college work. The schol arship may be given to assist a student in either undergraduate or graduate work, Burchard explained. Applications for the Clayton Award scholarships must be filed with the A&M jommalism depart ment by April 1. “Basis of selection will be schol astic record of candidates, sinceiity of purpose, outstanding potentiali ties in the field of agricultural journalism, and financial need,” Burchai’d said. Opportunities in the field of ag ricultural journalism were stressed by the department head. “Agriculture, and business and industry serving agriculture, need trained men to interpret the field and carry news of developments and improved practices to agricul tural workers. Job opportunities exceed the supply of trained men by a ratio of eight to one,” he con cluded. Leaves without pay to further pursue their studies, have been granted to three members of the A. and M. College and System staffs. The leaves, approved by the board of directors, include the following: James M. Waller, assistant pro fessor of economics, Arts and Sci ences, to pursue study for the Ph. D. degree at the University of N. Carolina, effective Feb. 1, 1954 to Jan. 1, 1955. He came to A. and M. in 1949 and holds a law degree from Yale and a master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. Howard C. Potts, technician, de partment of agronomy, Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station, effec tive Feb. 1, 1954 to June 1, 1955, to work toward an advanced de/ gree at Mississippi State College. Potts has been with the System since 1952. He has a BS degree from Oklahoma A. and M., 1950. Arden A. Baltensperger, junior agronomist, Substation No. 6, Den ton, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, will go to loM’a State Col lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, March 20, 1954 through Au gust 31, 1955, to study toward a Ph. D. degree. Baltensperger has been with the System since April, 1952 and holds his BS degrees from the University of Nebraska,