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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 199: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1954
Price 5 Cents
Town Hail Concert
Stars Henry Scott
In Comedy Festival
/ I>y JOHN AKART)
r Town Hall Reporter
The Town Hall audience re
sponded enthusiastically to Henry
Scott’s “Concerto for Fun” last
night. Practically everyone agreed
that it was all it promised to be—
and more.
The Scott program combined
pantom ine, comedy and concert
piano music. He gave the aud
ience a course in “How to Com
pose Popular Songs” and played
Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhap
sody in conventional style.
He gave his impressions of
pianist on the conceit stage; first
at the age of five, then at seven
teen, and then at ninety-two. Each
time this pianist got his finger
caught in the piano bench and
Special Session
Of Legislature
Meets Monday
AUSTIN, March 11—(fP)—
Gov. Shivers made it official
toady: The special session of
the Legislature will convene
at noon Monday to consider
higher pay for teachers and state
employees, more money for school
and prison buildings, and outlaw
ing of the Communist party.
T h e governor’s proclamation
calling a 30-day session said that
in addition to those four specific
topics, the Legislature will be au
thorized “to consider and act on
inch subjects and questions as the
governor may submit from time
to time.”
Thus Shivers left the way open
to submit any matter he considers
desirable. He has indicated any
such additional business would be
laid out only after the four major
topics have been disposed of.
The governor made teacher pay
the top issue in his call. .
The session’s purpose in this
field, he said, will be “to finance
and make such appropriations as
the Legislature may deem neces
sary to provide a new minimum
salary schedule for public free
public school teachers.”
A compromise pay plan endorsed
by Shivers and the Texas State
Teachers Ass’n. calls for an across
the board increase of $402 per year
in the minimum pay scale.
That would require 24 more mil-
Von dollars a year.
3 Paratroopers
Killed In Big Jump
WASHINGTON, March 11 (AT—
The Army announced that three
paratroopers were killed and 72
injured in varying degrees in an
airborne maneuver involving 9,000
troops at Ft. Bragg, N. C. today.
Of those injured, the Army said,
four were hurt critically, 27 suf
fered “medium type” injuries in
volving fractured bones and 41 re
ceived minor injuries.
The maneuver involved opera
tions by the 82nd Airborne Divi-
Eion.
The commander of the 82nd,
Maj. Gen. F. W. Farrell, and the
Commander of the 18th Airborne
Corps, Maj. Gen. Wayne C. Smith,
made jumps with the troops.
Weather Today
made the same mistakes in the
music.
Using a red wig, Scott showed
how a highbrow pianist gives his
first concert in Carnegie hall.
He' played “Chopin in the Citrus
Belt” with an orange in one hand.
When he dropped the orange, he
used a grapefruit.
Scott played Chopin’s “Minute
Waltz” and then gave instruction
in counterpart. He said it all
started “because Bach didn’t want
to play Swannee River in swing”.
The /‘Spirit of Aggieland” re
ceived its own special “Scott
treatment”. For the first time
the “Spirit” was played in boogie
woogie. The audience applauded
their approval.
Scott’s constantly changing fac
ial expressions kept the audience’
attention through much of the con
cert.
“A Complete Course in Music
Appreciation” was part of the “ed
ucation” that Scott gave. He took
up rhythm, harmony and melody
and finished by playing a number
with his hands, fists, arms and el
bows.
For an encore he played “Dixie”
after which he took off his coat,
revealing a Confederate flag at
tached to the back of his shirt.
“I don’t know when I have en
joyed playing two concerts as
much as T have these tonight here
at A&M”, Scott said.
OUCH!—Small pox shots for cadets going to summer
camp cause usual pained looks by such people as Charles
E*. Broussard, Junior EE from New Gulf. The needle ex
pert is Mrs. A. R. Kennedy, C-14-x, College View.
Food Handlers
Study Problems
WINDY
it again with increase in
. High yesterday 86. Low
norning 67.
How much food do you, the con
sumer, buy, which you never see
on your table?
That question was uppermost in
the minds of a group of men meet
ing at Texas A. and M. College
March 1-2. They were growers,
packers, shippers and receivers, at
tending a conference on “Handling
Perishable Agricultural Products.”
They attended the conference to
learn all they could about how to
cut down the amount of this ‘un
seen food’ which you must buy.
Seeking better methods of handl
ing-, of packing, of shipping and
of merchandisin gas ways of cut
ting down losses between field and
table, they heard specialists in
each phase of produce handling.
H. B. Sorenson, marketing spe
cialist with A. and M.’s Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics &
Sociology, said that only 58 per
cent of the tomatoes grown reach
the table.
A breakdown of losses shows
that 25 percent of tomatoes har
vested are rejected at the packing-
shed; three percent are lost in
transit and another 14 percent are
lost in the repacking room. Yet
you, the consumer, must buy these
tomatoes too, if the grower is to
remain in business.
Melons are another example of
such high-loss crops. According
to George B. Crisp, supervisor of
inspection, PMA Fruit and Vege
table Branch, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Harlingen, about five
percent of all melons loaded into
cars for shipment are lost before
the consumer sees them. But they
must be paid for.
Not all of the picture is dark,
however. Sorensen used advances
in the handling and shipping of
potatoes to show what improved
methods can do. Years ago the
production-over-population rela
tion ship showed 190 pounds of po-
taties for every person in the
country.
Today only 100 pounds of po-
taties are produced for each per
son in the country. Does this mean
that people have quit eating po-
taties? Sorensen doesn’t believe
so. Not by that large an amount,
anyway. Improved handling and
shipping methods—and new varie
ties—now allow a much greater
percentage of the potatoes pro
duced to find their way onto tab
les.
Spegking for the packer and
shipper, Austin B. Anson, execu
tive manager of the Texas Citrus
and Vegetable Growers and Ship
pers association, discussed new
methods of packing and of mer
chandising.
“Do you know who’s running the
produce industi-y?” he asked. “The
little gal wro goes down to the
grocery store and buys her grocer
ies, that’s who. We’ve got to
please that housewife.”
Going outside the produce field
to illustrate his point, Anson re
called the days of streetcars, when
women chose to wear hobble skirts.
“Remember how a woman had to
lift her skirts to mount those high
steps on the old streetcai-s ? ” he
asked. “Did she quit riding the
streetcars ? She did not. Did she
quit wearing those hobble skirts?
Uh-'uh. The streetcars lowered the
steps! That, gentlemen, is what is
happening to us. We’re changing
our containers and our shipping
methods to please that little lady
with a market-basket on her arm.”
Students Picked
l or Ham Sale
Committee
Ham sale committemen
have been chosen for the Lit
tle Southwestern Livestock
Exposition and Ham Sale at
Texas A&M College March 20.
The Little Southwestern is an
annual contest of the Saddle &
Sirloin Club, student organization
in the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment at the college, in which the
fitting and handling of show
animals—not the animals them
selves — are judged competitively
in the showring, along with the
butchering and preparation of show
hams for auction.
Funds from the ham auction will
be used by the club for sending
judging teams to competitive meets
Committeemen are Lloyd Joyce
of lago, chairman; David Allen of
Kyle; James Burham of Hereford;
Frank Parker of Miami;’ John
Harlan, Temple; Don Dierschke of
Rowena; Don Leonard of Cameran;
J. B. Riley of Burkburnett and
Don Johnson of Groesbeck.
Stevenson and Murrow
Accused By McCarthy
Coon Hunters
Now Hunting
State Group
MESQUITE, March 11 (A 1 )
A cafe owner wants to form
a group “to better the lot of
all coon hunters in Texas, to
protect Texas coon hounds and
to conserve Texas coons.”
Barney Myers said today he
has called a meeting March
18 in Dallas to organize “The
Texas Sportsmen’s Coon Hound
Assn.”
Myers figures 6,000 coon
hunters live in Texas and he
wants them in.
“There are county coon
hunting asociations in Nacog.-
doche«, Dallas, Van Zandt
County, Houston and Galves
ton and there’s the Central
Texas Coon Hunters Assn, at
Temple,” says Myers, “but we
need a statewide organization.”
Aggie Follies
Will Hold
Tryouts Soon
Tryouts for the Aggie Fol
lies will be held next week,
according to Hollie Briscoe,
chariman of the Follies com
mittee.
He urged “any Aggies interest
ed” to turn their name, address,
and type of act to Student Activi
ties Office or to John Akard (Dorm
8 Room 214), Producer of the
Follies.
The Aggie Follies is an annual
varsity show staged on in Guion
Hall the Friday and Saturday be
fore Mother’s Day. The program is
sponsored by the inter-council and
the pi-oceeds go to various school
councils.
Bud Barlow’s Brazos Bottom
Boogie Busters, the faculty dixie
land orchestra, will appear on the
Follies again this year, said
Briscoe. The Aggieland Orchestra
and the Singing Cadets have al
ready agreed to be on the pro
gram, he said. Briscoe has appoint
ed Don Friend to be the master of
ceremonies for the Follies.
The Follies committee consists of
Briscoe, Bill Young, Phil Mogford,
with Dean H. W. Barlow and C. K.
Esten of the English Department
as advisors.
“We plan to make the Aggie
Follies of 1954 the best Follies yet”
' Bi’iscoe said.
Radio Broadcast Blasts
Long String Of Critics
WASHINGTON, March 11—(H>)—Sen. McCarthy said
tonight that Adlai Stevenson lied on one phase of communism
in government and that Commentator Edward R. Murrow
was once described as an adviser to a “Communist propa
ganda school.’’
Striking back at a string of critics, McCarthy said, too,
that he would take the word of Abraham Lincoln over that
of Sen. Flandejs (R-Vt.), as to where the peril to the nation
lies. McCarthy quoted Lincoln as saying that if the nation
is destroyed it will be destroyed from within, while Flanders
recently held that the real Communist peril comes from
abroad, rather than from inside this country.
Murrow went on the air ‘
with his regular newscast ov
er CBS radio half an hour af
ter McCarthy spoke. He re
ported the McCarthy speech
briefly, and added for himself:
“My personal reaction and perhaps
some corrections will have to wait
for some other time.”
McCarthy delivered his blasts in
a question-and-answer radio ses
sion with Fulton Lewis, Jr., over
the Mutual network.
Lewis started off by asking
about Stevenson’s speech at Mi
ami Beach, Fla. Saturday night at
tacking both McCarthy and the
Eisenhower administration. A t
one point Stevqnson said that
among all, the security risks the
administration claims to have re
moved from the goveimment, “only
one alleged active Communist has
been found.”
“That, of course,” McCarthy
said, “is strictly untrue and Adlai
knew that, or should know it.”
He went on to name three per
sons he said have been let out of
the • government in support of his
point.
Turning to a television criticism
M u r r o w directed at McCarthy,
Lewis asked if the senator had
any answer to that. Murrow is a
CBS commentator, who said Mc
Carthy repeatedly has been step
ping over the line between inves
tigating and persecuting.
Classing Murrow with what he
termed the “extreme left wing
bleeding heai’t elements of tele
vision and radio,” McCai'thy said
he had a 1935 clipping from the
Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph listing
Edward R. Murrow as American
adviser to a Communist propa
ganda school.
The senator said Murrow was
described as on the national ad-
j visory council of Moscow Univers
ity, an institution advocating vio
lent overthrow of the government.
“This,” the senator said, “may
explain why Edward R. Murrow
feels he must, week after week,
smear McCai’thy.”
Maybe, McCarthy said, Murrow
(See McCarthy, Page 4)
Head Yell Leader
New Duval Suit Filed
SAN DIEGO, March ll<A>)_Four
Duval County citizens filed suit to
day asking that the Duval County
Commissioners Court and four oth
er officials be enjoined from trans
ferring tax money from one fund
to another*
Monty Sparks Student Spirit
“Now, Ole Armey! We’ve got
a job to do! We’ve got a ball
game to win, Ole Army! We’ve
got a team, and we’ve got a yell,
Ole Armey! Now, yell it!!”
That’s a sample of the assign
ments Vol M. Montgomery, head
yell leader at Texas A&M College,
gives the student body during
games—and during yell practice.
Cadet Lt. Col. Montgomery is
well fitted, both physically and
mentally, for his job; a job that
requires much stamina, both phy
sical and emotional. He’s six feet,
two inches tall and weighs 185
pounds—and is an inherent sports
lover.
Scheduled to receive the bachelor
of science degree in civil engineer
ing at the end of this semester,
“Monty” as his friends call him,
says, “The only thing wrong with
classes thees days is they interfere
with my fishing!”
Born at Stamford on December
10, 1931, he is the son of Vol M.
Montgomery, senior class president
and head yell leader of the class
of ’24. Since his dad is an em
ploye of Consolidated Western
Contractors, which is a bi’anch of
the United States Steel Company,
Monty has lived in 43 Texas cities
and towns. He calls Abilene home
although just now his pai’ents live
in Carlsbad, N.M.
But it was around Abilene that
he spent most of his time—or rath
er, it was around Fort? Phantom
Hill Lake, where he learned the
art of handling a rod and reel—
and a 12-gauge shotgun.
It was at Abilene, too, that he
won his letters in football and
basketball.
Perhaps it was all the moving
around when he was younger, but
something gave Monty the ability
to meet people and make friends
of them, wherever he goes. No
where on the campus at A&M Col
lege can he conduct a conversation
for as long as five minutes with
out stopping to greet at least two
persons. Usually it’s more than
two.
Despite his heavy academic
schedule, he can’t seem to find
enough to do. Besides his head
yell leader’s job, he also is or has
been a member of the Student
Senate, chairman of the Muster
Committee, chairman of the Wel
Yol M. Montgomery
come Committee, , a member of the
Southwest Conference Sportsman
ship Committee, a member of Ross
Volunteers, honorary military
guard unit, and a member of the
Singing Cadets.
While meeting this full sched
ule of duties, he earned the addi
tional honor of being a Distin
guished Student, scholasctically,
and squeezed in fishing and hunt
ing trips all over the state and in
Louisiana.
He got his limit of ducks and
geese almost every time he could
get away from the campus during
season, and two weekends ago he
brought home a four and one-half
pound bass from a lake near Waco.
Every night that’s dark enough
he and a party of classmates hunt
the booming bullfrogs which line
the banks of waterways along the
Brazos river valley.
At A&M where he holds an
ROTC contract with the air force,
he started to follow up on his
football and basketball playing
days at Abilene, and stayed long
enough to win a freshman numer
al, but decided that the school of
fered too many interesting things
to do for him to concentrate on
sports which demanded so much
time.
He’s proud of his school, and
he’s convinced that he’ll get more
from it than he gives—so he gives
a lot.
Thomas Picked
For Navy Head
By Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, March 11
(AP) — Charles S. T h o m a s,
whose first naval job was fly
ing an ancient and under
powered plane in World War
I, was nominated today to be sec
retary of the Navy.
Thomas already has held two
Pentagon jobs in the Eisenhower
administration — about seven
months as undersecretary of the
Navy in 1953 and since then as
sistant secretary of defense for
supply and logistics.
President Eisenhower sent
Thomas’s name to the Senate to
day, nominating him to succeed
Robert Anderson who earlier this
week was chosen to become dep
uty secretary of defense, the lat
ter post becoming vacant by the
resignation of Roger Kyes.
Thomas, 5$ years old, was born
in Independence, Mo., home town
of former President Truman, but
his family left there in 1911 and
Thomas has called California home
since then. He is by profession
an investment banker.
Charge Against DA
Go To State Senate
HOUSTON, March 11 (A 5 )—The
official status of District Attorney
William Scott, indicted on a charge
of operating a house of prostitu
tion, appeared today to rest with
the Texas Senate.
Scott has said he will not resign.
He was elected to a two-year term
in 1952 but unusual circumstances
find his appointment as district
attorney requiring Senate approv
al.
Scott was elected as criminal
district attorney. The 1954 Legis
lature abolished this Harris County
office and created two offices, a
distinct attorney and a county at
torney.
Four Commie Jets
Chased Over Korea
SEOUL, Friday, March 12 (A*)—.
American warplanes turned back
four Communist jets early today at
the truce line northwest of In
chon port of the Yellow Sea, the
5th Air Force said.
The Red jets did not attempt to
cross the line in the face of th®.
four American jets.
The American planes had
“scrambled” to the northern
boundai’y after a 1’adar alert.
It was not known immediately
whether shots were fired.
The Seoul-Inchon area was under
a warning alert for 11 minutes.
The alert was lifted at 10:45 a. m.
8:45 p. m., EST, Thursday.
Committee Named
For Coming Rodeo
The committee chairman for the
1954 Intercolligiate Rodeo have
been named, according to Bobby
Rankin, President of the Rodeo
Club.
The Rodeo, to be held April 1-3,
will have the following men as
chairmen; Publicity, Tom Mont
gomery and Tip Smith; Tickets,
Herby Helbig; Band, Ed Harvill;
Bryan Parade, Lowie Rice and R.
S. Higgins.
Other chairmen are; Programs,
Buddy Fincher and R.S. Higgins;
Arena & Equipment, Lowie Rice;
and Stock Handling and Feeding,
Charlie Bouse and Charlie Davis*