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D. B. Ct/FFER COLLEGE ARCHIVIST HSC, FE 3 COPIES Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents e Battali on PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 200: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1954 Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Price 5 Cents Eigh t Scholarships To Be Awarded m rgig • • /1ere 1 his Spnng Eight scholarships totaling $.‘1,000.00 will bo awarded this spring by the Faculty Committee on Scholarships provided qualified candidates are available, said R. G. Perryman, assistant registrar and secretary of the faculty com mittee. In addition, a number of other similar awards are available through individual departments of the College. Basic qualifications for scholar ship candidates are good scholastic records, personnel records and need of financial assistance. Students are invited by the Faculty Committee to submit ap plications in their own behalf, or in behalf of any student they feel deserving of the available awards. Application blanks may be secured from the head of any college de partment. Applicantions must be filed with Mr. Perryman not later than March 25. The following awards are available: The awards are as follows: The Krueger Award of $500.00; for a student who will graduate next year, who has made an out standing record, and who has earn ed a substantial portion of his rollege expenses to date. The Albert Banta Award of fdOO.OO; for a student who will graduate next year and who has achieved an outstanding record in scholarship and leadership, and with special consideration given to the student who has overcome serious financial handicaps in his educational career. The W. S. Mosher Memorial Scholarship of $600.00 each (2); to be awarded students with two years of college remaining, who are studying for careers in the general field of structural steel engineering. Except in rare, cases, eligible students must be majoring in stimctural civil engineering or architectural construction. The Lulie Hughey Lane Scholar ship Award of the Texas Society, United States Daughters of 18:12 of $200.00; to be presented to a sophomore majoring in Liberal Arts and taking Military Science, chosen for outstanding qualities of scholarship, leadership, and char acter with special considei’ation given to a student who has over come difficult obstacles Dairy Conference Set for March 17 —One hundred commercial dairy processors will have a chance to get up to date information on various phases of dairy process ing March 17 and 18 at the annual dairy manufacturers’ conference. Included in the list of topics to he discussed at the conference are the future importance of milk pro teins, problems in training plant personel, current dairy products research, and selling dairy pro ducts through grocery stores. Another feature is a scoring clinic in which the dairymen will get training in judging dairy pro ducts. Some dairy processors ai’e able to use these conferences as a sub stitute for college technical train ing, said A. V. Moore, chairman of the conference. The' Kream and Kow Klub will sponser a barbeque lunch in Dun can hall the first day of the con ference. Registration will be in the Me morial Student Center at 8:00 a. m. March 17. Fort Worth A&M Mothers’ Club Award of $200.00; to be presented to a student for use in his sopho more, junior or senior year, whose home is in Tarrant County and w’ho shall be chosen for outstand ing qualities of scholarship, leader ship and character. The Brazos County A&M Mo thers’ Club Award of $100.00; to be presented to a student chosen for outstanding qualities of leader ship, scholarship, and character, with preference given to a resident of Brazos County. Square D. Scholarship o f $500.00 awarded to a second semes ter sophomore, who is majoring either in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering. Other engi neering students will be considered on occasion. The stipend is to be divided equally between the re cipient’s junior and senior years in college. Hines Will Be RE Speaker For INext Year The main speaker for next years Religious Emphasis Week will be Bishop John E. Hines, said Mr. Gordon Gay, Director of the Y.M.C.A. Bishop Hines, who is Bishop Co adjutor of the Episcopal Church in Austin, is in great demand for this type of work and is considered one of the best speakers in Texas, said Mr. Gay. Being a native South Carolinian, Bishop Hines took his undergrad uate work at the University of The South at Seuanee, Tennessee. He did his theological work at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. . Before coming to Texas, Bishop Hines held Pastorates in Missouri and Georgia. In 1941, he became Rector of Christ Church in Houston and served until elected Bishop in 1946. “Bishop Hines is young, full of enthusiasm, a very interesting speaker, and a capable administra tor in church affairs,” said Mr. Gay. He has spoken here before, the last time being for the foot ball banquet in 1951. Sara Puddy Sings With Tessie Choir The Modern Choir of Texas State College for Women, compos ed of 45 girls' who sing both sacred and secular songs from the 16th century to be present, will tour West Texas March 26-31. Before the trip, the choir will sing at the TSCW Redbud Festival on the campus March 19-20, and also in nearby communities. The TSCW Singers include Miss Sara Puddy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Puddy, 1505 Sulphur, College Station. She is a sopho more speech major. SYLVIA AND SANDRA KELLY will sing with the Aggie land Orchestra Saturday night at the Junior Prom. They also join with Pete Mayeaux to form a trio. The girls will also sing at the Shrine Crippled Children’s Ball in the MSC Friday. The Student Life Committee last night placed its approval on a plan written by the sub-committee on Student Publications and Yell Leaders. The committee voted 16 to 1 to give the editors a voice in the group when it approved the* pro posals outlined by the sub-com mittee. The committee made the amend ment after first having the action taken in the meeting of last Feb ruary 22 declared void by the Chairman, Joe Sorrells. The part declared void was the vote of 13 to 3 which supposedly amended the Student Life Committee constitu tion at that time. The ruling of the chair was made because • The Sub-committee on Stu dent Publications and Yell Leaders had not been discharged; • The Student Life Committee did not act as a whole; • The Student Life Committee did not have the necessary two thirds vote required by its consti tution. The committee as proposed in the new amendment is composed of: • Three faculty members of the SLC, one of whom shall be chair man; • One miliary and one non military student from the SLC; • One editor of The Battalion and one editor of another Student Publication, each elected by vote of all the editors of all student publications; and • One member of the faculty of the Department of Journalism, ap pointed by the president. The Manager of Student Publi cations will be the Secretary with out vote. Ex-officio members with out vote wmuld be the other edi tors, one military and one non military student selected by the Student Senate as well as one fac ulty member appointed by the president. One of the duties of the group will be to let contracts at which time the editors concerned will be a voting member. The other duty of the group will be to counsel and advise the Manager of Student Publications and the editors and to make recommendations to the en tire SLC. Shivers Asks Taxes On Business, Beer, Gas Batt Election Set Tomorrow In MSC The special election for act ing editors of The Battalion will be held in the MSC from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. tomorrow. The ballot box will be near the post office entrance in the MSC. Four candidates for acting coeditor have been approved by the manager of student publication, Karl Elmquist. Those approved are corps: Harri Baker and Chuck Neighbors; non-corps; Bob Boriskie and Jon Kinslow. Pu h l ica tionsBoard Approved By SLC Aggie Follies Sets Show For May 7-8 The Aggie Follies of 1954 will be held at 7:30 pm. May 7 and 8. The Follies will consist of a variety type program. It will not have the same theme as it did last year. It will be strictly an Aggie pro duction. The Follies will be designed pri marily for students and parents and will be held in Guion hall. Tryouts for the Aggie Follies will be held this week, 'said Hollie Briscoe,, chairman of the Fqllies committee. Don Friend has been selected as the master of ceremonies. The admission will be 75 cents per person Friday and $1.00 per person Saturday. The show will be one hour and 50 minutes long. “At present, the Follies are still in the planning stage, but we hope to have our talent lined up by this week,” said Briscoe. Seniors May Do Graduate Work Senior AFROTC cadets wishing to do graduate work before enter ing active service may apply for category “C” delays, said Col. John A. Way, PAS&T. These delays will allow graduat ing seniors who receive a com mission to work on advanced de grees until June 15, 1955. Air Force seniors receiving com missions who do not apply for category “C” delays will be as signed to active duty between July 1 and June 15, 1955. “If it is possible students will be assigned to active duty in ac cordance with their wishes,” said Way. Gilchrist Says Texas Has Enough Water ‘Should Raise Money For Belter Salaries’ AUSTIN—(TP)—Gov. Allen Shivers told Texas legislators Monday he thinks business, beer and natural gas should raise $25,600,000 to pay better salaries to teachers and state em ployees. The Governor suggested: 1. At least $14,000,000 a year more taxes on natural gas. ... He suggested a rate of one-half cent per thousand cubic feet on a new “gathering” tax to replace the levy re cently declared invalid by the United States Suprem eCourt. 2. Adding 63c a barrel to the tax on beer, now $1.37 a barrel. This would add $3,000,000 tax on this product an nually. .3. Increasing from $1.25 tof~ $2 the tax on each thousand dollars of corporate assets. This would boost state fran chise taxes by $8,600,000 a year. “It is merely one plan,” Shivers told the lawmakers. “If you do not like it, I hope you will get a suitable plan of your own.” A few hours before State Comp troller Robert S. Calvert gave the heartening report that there was enough surplus revenue from the general fund to pay for $10,687,500 in state institutional improvements. Rep. Joe Pool of Dallas, mean while, dropped in the hopper his bill raising the beer tax to $10 a barrel. * “The increase the Governor pro poses is not enough,” Pool said. “It ought to be doubled or tripled, at least. D. H. Buchanan of Longview, tax committee chairman, will spon sor a remodification of all tax laws drawn up at the suggestion of Speaker Reuben E. Senterfitt. Bu chanan said this would merely pro vide a framework for revising tax rates. Governor Shivers suggested the only “certain” way of increasing taxes on natural gaSv without .pos sibility of another court defeat, would be to boost present produc tion taxes, now netting over $23,- 000,000 a year. But he favors try ing a new tax on “gathering.” Sihvers will offer a specific bill on this subject, which legal experts consider constitutional, he said. The proposed franchise tax in crease would be shared by all cor porations, Shivers noted. “The federal income tax on cor porations being what it is today, Uncle Sam will pick up the tab for 52 per cent of the check,” he added. The Governor said there is no disagreement on the need for in creasing teachers’ pay, and the proposal written by a state-wide committee “will not represent a ‘victory’ for anyone—except for i the deserving teachers of Texas and . . . for all the school chil dren.” I The Senate Education committee set for hearing Wednesday the compromise plan supported by Governor Shivers, the Texas State Teachers Association and other’s. Fifteen Senators signed it, headed by A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris. The bill calls for a $402 a year increase in basic teaching salaries, and 80-20 percentage formula of state-local contributions to the gen eral school fund, and $100 a year extra for each school “professional unit.” Shivers said local trustees could use the $100 as they wish for school purposes. Speaker Senterfitt has criticized the $100 allowance as a potential loophole to demand future in creases in state aid to schools. There was no show of animosity between Shivers and Senterfitt at the joint session Monday. Drill Team , Wins First In Competition The A&M Fish Drill team took top honors Saturday in a drill team competition at Amon G. Carter stadium. The A&M squad scored 286 out of a possible 300. The trip was made by the 39 members of the team and two alternates as well as Capt. J. C. Brusse, advisor and Master ser- gents D. R. Dunthy and T. H. Wil liams. The team performing under the command of John W. Rinard, Drill Team Commander from com pany “G” competed against teams composed of upperclassmen except for Arlington State. The perman ent trophy cup was donated by the ROTC Department of T. C. U. In second place was SMU with 253 points; third was Arlington State College with 246 and fourth was North Texas State College with 240. Six teams from over the state took part. Members of the TCU Air Force ROTC team were hosts for the event. Federal Inspection Set for March 31 Federal inspection will be hold March 31 and April 1, said Major Luther J. Westbrook, operations officer. Col. Franklin G. Pruyn, Lt. Col. John H. Thompson and Lt. Col. Robert L. Cox from Air Force R. O. T. C. headquarters in Mont gomery, Alabama, will be inspect ing officers for the Air Force. In spection for both Army and Air Force will be held at the same time but names of the Army of ficers were not available at the time. There will be a corps review Thursday, April 1. Major West brook said he had reason to believe that Air Force officers will be looking into classrooms more than they have in the past. The order for the exact pro cedure of the inspection will come from the commandants office later this month. No New Guidons Corps guidons will not be changed this year, said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com mandant. The report followed a rumor that guidons will be uniform in the future. New colors are sup posed to be silver with a red fringe. Camera Club Offer Beginners Course The Camera club will offer a be ginner’s course in darkroom techni que beginning March 15, in room SB of the Memorial Studet Center. Classes will be free to Camera club members. Only $2.50 is neces sary for membership whidh entitles one'to these classes with darkroom privileges. These classes will be designed primarily to teach amateur shut- terbugs how to develop and print their own pictures and gain point ers on taking better pictures. Classes will meet every other week on Monday night from 7:15 to 8:15 p. m. Those interested in further in formation may obtain it from Margaret Long, program consult ant of the MSC. The average annual precipita tion in Texas over a long period has been 362 million acre-feet, ac cording to weather bureau records, Gibb Gilchrist said today. Speaking at the meeting of the Texas Water and Sewage Works Association, the retired chancellor of the Texas A&M College System, now engaged in research for the System, said that “the water seep ing into our soils, flowing across our lands and down our streams, or passing through our under ground sands to surface or sub surface reservoirs, or the sea it self, is of ample quantity to supply our present and future needs.” What becomes of the average annual precipitation in Texas? Mr. Gilchrist broke it down as follows: Outgo, evaporation from plants, 23% per cent; runn - off, industry and irrigation, 2 per cent; surface evaporation, % per cent; return to sea, 10 per cent. Surface water other than run-off, pastures, 3 per cent; commercial timber 2 per cent; crops, 3 per cent, supply underground, 3 per cent. Evapora tion from soil, 17 per cent; non- Crocker Elected Sewer President B. A. Crocker, dh’ector of public works of the City of Longview, has been elected president of the Texas Water and Sewage Works association, meeting at Texas A- &M College this week Other officers elected include A. C. Bryan, department of public works, City Houston; J. L. Robin son, assistant superintendent water purification and sewage treatment, City of Fort Worth; J. P. Burden, city engineer, City of San Angelo, and Marvin F. Runnion, superin tendent of utilities, City of Harl ingen, all vice-presidents. productive plant growth, 36 per cent. The speaker said that “there is every reason to believe that before its termination time the Texas Water Resources committe will come up with something worth while and in the over-all public in terest of our people.” A survey made in 1952 revealed that there were some 96 techni cally trained men on the staff of the A&M System, capable of work ing in some phase of the water project, including research and ex tension workers, library and other facilities available for board scale attack. “Many engineers like myself”, Gilchrist pointed out, “who have dealt with surface water runoff, evaporation, storage, have not been brought face to face with water as needed and affected by plant life and soil storage. Here is where the agricultural folks come in a big way—here is why the Texas A&M College System - with its prime mandates devoted to agriculture and engineering has already re cognized a great responsibility.” He said that the widespread ex tension, research and forest per sonnel brings together at one place "the active minds and ma ture thoughts of men who will be helping to seek the final solution of the water problem of Texas.” The daily work of this personnel, Gilchrist declared, brings them in to direct contact with data as to “how much we use, how much we consume, how much we let get away and primai’ily to point the way toward possible solutions.” Mr. Gilchrist said that the pro blem is bigger than anyone could imagine and that the battle may be a long one. He said, however, “there is no discouragement and with everyone concerned in Texas working together the job will be done” Veteran Sen. Gus J. Strauss of Hallettsville was elected president pro tern of the Senate. Five hew House members were sworn in. They are Representa tives Maud Isaacks of El Paso, Charles D. Kirkham Jr. of Cle burne, Jim Moore of Arlington, George D. Ford of Bogota, and O. H. Schram of Taylor. Rue Pinalle May Get Band An out-of-town combo is being considered for Rue Pinalle March 27, said Miss Margaret Long, Me morial Student Center program consultant. Rue Pinalle, A&M’s version of a French night club, is held on Fri day nights in the bowling alley wing of the MSC. However, it is usually confined to weekends when guests are expected on the campus. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Fair and cloudy today. High yesterday 61. Low this morning 38. ’ _