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Number 207: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS,TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1954
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Student Dies In Car Wreck
Gen. O. P. Weyland
Highest-Ranking Former Student
Weyla n d. Aggie-ex,
To Review Corps
By JTM COLLINS
Battalion Staff Writer
A&M’s highest-ranking former
etudent will review the corps of
cutlets at the federal Inspection
review Thursday at 4 p.m.
The nrhn, Gen. O. P. Weyland,
’2.1, former commanding general of
the Far East air force in Korea,
will arrive here Thursday morning
from San Antonio.
He will be guest of honor at a
luncheon given by President David
H. Morgan at 12:15 Thursday in
the Memorial Student Center ball
room.
Guests will include M. T. Har
rington, chancellor of the A&M
system; John P. Abbott, dean of
college; W. H. Delaplane, dean of
arts and sciences; Howard C. Bar-
low, dean of engineering; C. N.
Shepardson, dean of agriculture;
W. W. Armistead, dean of veteri
nary medicine.
Tde P. Trotter, dean of the
Graduate School; John R. Bertrand,
dean of the Basic Division;. W. L.
Penberthy, dean of men; and Col
onel Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Also expected for the dinner are
Maj. Gen. B. P. Disosway, com
manding general of flying training
air force; Ike Ashburn, former
A&M commandant; Col. Norman
Callish, of the Plouston military
affairs committee; and DeWitt
Greer of the Texas highway de
partment.
Alvin H. Weyland, brother of
Gen. Weyland and also a former
student, will attend. He will bring
with him some of the general’s
classmates of the class of ’23. Alvin
Weyland is vice president and gen
eral manager of the Arkansas Nat
ural Gas corporation.
Also attending the luncheon will
be members of the air force and
army inspection teams for fedei-al
inspection.
Fred Mitchell, corps commander;
Kert Goode, deputy corps com
mander; B. K, Boyd, first regiment
commander; Bill Reed, first wing
commander; and Victor R. Ken
nedy, first composite regiment
commander, will also attend.
Anyone wishing to attend the
luncheon can buy a ticket from
Maj. Luther' J. Westbrook, air
force operations officer, or Ser
geant T. M. Buford in room 20G in
the military science building.
Tickets are $1.75 and will go off
sale Wednesday noon.
Weyland received his commission
in 1924 and went into the air serv
ice advanced flying school. He was
(See WEYLAND, Page 2)
Room
To Re
Inspection
Thursday
Cadet room inspections for feder
al inspection will be from 8 to 10
a. m. Thursday. Cadets will be ex
cused from classes for these two
hours.
The annual inspection will start
Wednesday with a conference for
the inspecting officers and mili
tary officials here.
There will be three air force in
spectors and 14 army inspectors.
After the conference Wednesday
the inspectors will spend the day
reviewing the files, records, in
struction and facilities of the mili
tary detachments. There will be
another conference that afternoon.
After the room inspection
Thursday morning, the officers will
continue their inspection of the
files, records, instruction and
facilities.
Will Visit Classes
They will make unscheduled
visits to military science classes
during the two days.
The inspectors will attend the
president’s luncheon for Gen. O. P.
Weyland at noon Thursday, and
the corps review that afternoon at
4. The highest ranking inspector
Chorus Line Will
Highlight Rue Pinalle
A chorus line of six girls and
singer Carmen Hinds from Fort
Worth will highlight Cafe Rue Pi
nalle in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Friday night.
The Capers Combo will furnish
music for dancing. The girls will
be accompanied by Mrs. Vernon
Hinds, mother of the singer, on the
piano.
Rankin Helps
Aggies
Weekend Rodeo
The Aggie rodeo team won
over Sam Houston, and the
University of Houston at
Tomball, Friday and Saturday
nights.
Bobby Rankin scored 210 of the
team’s 610 points and won the all-
around cowboy trophy. The tro
phy for high team was also won
by the Aggies.
Because of injuries suffered by
Buddy Fincher and James Dickey
in the first night of competition,
the Aggies had a four man team
e.ntering the final match. This
four man team won three firsts
and thi-ee seconds to win first
place.
First place in bareback riding,
and second in bulldogging were
won by Rankin. Billy Steele won
first in the calf roping event. Two
second places were won by Ken
neth Beasley in the bulldogging
and the bareback riding. Bull
dogging first place was taken by
Lowie Rice.
will take the review, along with
Weyland and President David H.
Morgan.
Critique To Be Held
A critique of the inspection will
be held after the review, with the
inspectors and the members of the
A&M military detachments.
The inspectors will also have a
conference with the president while
they are here.
The official report of the in
spection will not be released until
later.
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Alpha Zeta Sets
Spring Initiation
A&M’s chapter of Alpha Zeta,
national agricultural honor frater
nity, will initiate 40 new members
April 5 in the assembly room of the
Memorial Student Center.
To become a member a student
must be within the upper two-
fifths of his class, participate in
extra-curricular school activities
and show exceptional abilities .in
leadership, said Roger Q. Landers
jr., fraternity chancellor.
Those who met the require
ments of the preliminary initia
tion Thursday will become mem
bers of the fraternity.
Faculty members who are
fraternity members now will initi
ate the students.
Corps Sergeant Major
To Be Chosen Soon
The corps sergeant major will
not be picked until the week of
April 12, said Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant.
“With Federal Inspection and
the visit of Lt. Gen. Otto P. Wey
land, we will be unable to make the
selection until that time,” said
Davis.
MSC Art Advisor
Many A rt Awards
Won by Mrs. Terry
Deadline
For Class
The deadline for filing for class
election is today at 5 p.m.
The following have filed for of
fice; senior class prenident: Bill
Coppage, Conrad Cummings, Don
T. Friend, Walter Kilgo, J. B. Lil-
ley, Charles Minter, Kurt Nauck,
Ben Rector, Robei’t Rowland, Giles
Schanen.
Senior class vice-president: John
Benefield, Bill Bradshaw, Curtis
Bremer, W. R. Cannon, Glen Con-
nally, Lawrence Francis, Allan
Heimer, Hugh Lanktree, Lawrence
Laskoshie, John Leimbrook, Theo
Lindig, Mac Moore, Lolan Pullen,
Bob Robertson, Sam Rowland, Jer-
i*y Schulz, Charlie Seely.
Treasurer: John Brannen, James
Caffey, John Cozad, Alan Ezzell,
Jack Huettel, Buck Isbell, Thur
man Johnson, Dick McCasland,
Thomas McDade, Tex Vanzura.
Secretary: Dick Crawfoi’d, Wal
lace Eversburg, James Gafney.
Social Secretary: Roy Cline, Jack
Courtney, Harold Craig, Charles
Newman, Neil Price, Thomas
Schmidt, Tony Specia, Bill Stuck-
ert, Ed Wulfe.
Parliamentarian: Jerry Johnson,
Jim Johnson, Joe Stovall.
Sergeant-at-arms: Thomas Dui'-
din, Clarence Hatcher, John Saun
ders, Paul Savage, Romain Slab-
baert, Phile Speairs.
Entertainment manager: Bill
Utzman, William Johnson.
Senior yell leader: Sam Akard
Bob Cai’penter, Howard Childers,
Jim Johnson, Doug King, Glenn
Langford, J. R. (Bubba) Plumlee.
MSC council: James Mathis, Tom
Sammons, Jules Vieaux.
President of junior class: Bob
Barlow, Lloyd Billingsley, Sam
Coffman, Robert Francis, Gaines
Godrey, Allen Greer, Ray Howde-
shell, William Naubie, Tommy
Short, Frank Waddell, Frank West
moreland.
Vice president: James Braeuti-
Joe Dixon Killed,
Two Others Hurt
A&M student Joe Dixon was killed instantly in an auto
accident near Hempstead Saturday morning 1 . Dixon, a 19-
year-old freshman business major from Beaumont, was in
squadron 24.
Leroy Allison, 19, a freshman from Springtown, and
Bobbie Mathews, 18, of Beaumont were injured in the acci
dent. Neither were seriously injured.
Bradford Crockett, Dixon’s roommate, from Harlingen,
and Bill Barclay and Kenneth L. Spidel, Beaumont high
school students, were in the accident but were unhurt.
According to the Beaumont Enterprise, Deputy Sheriff
D. A. Buchanan of Waller county said the accident occurred
"fas Dixon was attempting to
Is Today
Filing
gam, Glenn Buell, Paul Harrison,
Gerald Hord, John Liddy, Warren
Martin, Hughes McCrary, Gene
Roper, Eugene Stubblefield, Bill
Swann.
Social secretary: Jan Broder
ick, James Cook, Wayne Lever-
kunn, Clay McFarland, W. J. Ruiz.
Secretary: Loro Jary, B. A. Par-
kam, Cecil Steward, Richard Tachi-
bana, Monroe Fuchs.
Treasurer: James Cowan, R. E.
Good, Larry Kennedy, Jack Person.
Sergeant-at-arms: Ed Fries,
Pete Seri van o. Parliamentarian:
J. M. Bower.
Yell leader: David Bailey, Kerry
Burleson, Leroy Cambell, Bert
Chinnock, John Cunningham, Lar
ry Hill, W. P. Holladay, Wade In
gram, Gus Mijolis, Buford Miller,
Fred Nasser ,George Parr, Bud
Patterson, William Sellers, Charles
Welch.
Sophomore class president: Brad
Crockett, Dick Wall. Vice presi
dent: Richrd Bernard, Jon Colib,
Thomas Livingston. Secretary:
James Willborn. Treasurer: Bob
by Wakefield. Social secretary:
Donald Green, J. D. Selensky. Ser-
geantiat-arms: Bob Mai’shall. Par-
liamentarain: Joseph Curtis, Tom
Norton, Erwin Parlih.
Ware To Give Talk
, On Sex, Marriage
Dr. E. W. Ware of Dallas will
give a talk on “Sex and Marriage”
in the Memorial Student Center
ballroom at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday.
There will be a period for ques
tions and discussion following the
talk, said Jules Vieaux, member of
the sex relations committee of the
MSC and host to Ware.
This is the first of a series of
talks on sex education sponsored
by the committee.
By RALPH COLE
Battalion Staff Writer
Winner of many art awards in
exhibitions throughout Texas is
Mx-s. Ralph L. Terry, advisor to
the Memorial Student Center ai’t
gallery committee.
Mrs. Terry started on her career
as a painter when she was 13. She
obtained her degi’ee in art Hom
Howard Payne junior college while
still a junior in high school. Besides
being a painter, Mrs. Teri'y teaches
art in the MSC and has taught
since she received her degree. She
was once head of the art depart
ment at Howard Payne.
She has no favorite color but
said that red and blue seem to
slip into most of her paintings.
Clear colors are preferred.
Mrs. Terry has studied under
Adele Brunet of New York, Will
Stevens of New Orleans, Jose Arpa
of Spain and Xavier Gonzales, who
is her favorite living painter.
Although starting as a painter
while a child, Mrs. Terry said, “Too
many people believe that children
are geniuses. I believe that a
grown or middle-aged person is
better fitted for painting than a
child because they have knowledge
about a lot of things and can put
it to better use.”
Lectures are given by Mrs. Terry
in the MSC on Monday night to
the art gallery committee. When
asked how she liked to work with
Aggies, She said, “I love to work
with them because they are so
enthusiastic and because they come
up with some very good ideas.”
“There is no particular setting I
like to paint”, she said “I just love
to paint.’
Mrs. Terry is a member of the
Art League of Houston and the
Texas Fine Arts association of
which she is a trustee. She intends
to enter some paintings in com
petition this spring.
Seniors Vote Today
For Gift Selection
The run-off election for a class
gift for the class of ’54 will close
this afternoon at 5 p. m. The vot
ing booth is in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Seniors are voting on either a
scoreboard for Kyle field or start
ing a new wing for the MSC.
They have $1,500 to spend for a
giB.
erate veteran ^ ^ ^ ams > 111-year-old Confed-
airline at Texas boards a Trans-Texas
base to be . ' 00f ° , 1 1 bis way to Bergstrom air force
him is his snn c ® mman( ^f r for the day Sunday. Assisting
Corpus ChrUtio ^ ene ' is Miss Corine Bowlin of
is Maj. J S ivn^v! ?e i 1 ^ 0na l hostess for Williams. At right
escort. * cftalske of Bryan AFB, Williams’ military
pass a car driven by George
Jones, 30, of Bryan. Jones
started to make a left turn
across the highway into a
service station and Dixon swerved
his car . to the left to avoid strik
ing him.
Spindle said Dixon veered to
ward a ditch along the highway
and then attempted to straighten
up and pull back onto the high
way before hitting the ditch.
Hits Wall
The car started turning over.
Dixon was thrown out onto a brick
wall by the side of the service
station. The car then struck two
parked cars before coming to a
stop.
Buchanan said Jones was taken
to the Waller county jail on a
charge of making a left turn with
out proper hand signals. His bond
was set at $500.
Dixon was a native of Luling
and had lived in Beaumont for the
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Silver Taps for Dixon will be
held at 10:30 tonight. All cam
pus lights will he turned off
during the ceremony in which
the entire student body is ex
pected to take part.
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last five years. He was graduated
from Beaumont high school.
Word of the accident reached the
A&M campus Saturday afternoon
by way of a Houston sports writ
er. He passed the scene of the
accident shortly after it occurred.
He was on his way to College Sta
tion for the A&M - Rice baseball
game.
‘One of Best Liked’
Russell Scott, executive officer
of squadron 24, said he learned of
the accident at evening formation
Saturday.
“Dixon was one of the best liked
men in the squadron and most of
the men in the outfit were pretty
broken up about it,” he said.
Dixon was a member of the
freshman track team, and a candi
date for sophomore class vice-pres
ident.
Herb Brewer, commanding offi
cer of squadron 24, and the entire
squadron went to Beaumont for
the funeral which was held at 4
p.m. yesterday. Members of the
squadron were pall bearers.
Little League
Will Erect
Park Fences
Fences will be erected to
morrow afternoon for the Lit
tle League baseball park at
Fairview and Luther streets.
Little league players and
their fathers will erect the fences.
Work will start at 5 p. m. Those
who wish to work have been asked
to bring a hammer and a rake.
The park, bought by the city,
contains two acres. The Little
League baseball association will
use the park, and improvements
will be paid for by the association.
“The city may build a small par k
area on the property,” said Ran
Boswell, city manager’.
Three Little League parks will
be built in this area this year. Two
will be in Bryan and one will be
in College Station. The cost of each
will be about $1,500, with most of
the labor being donated.
The posts for the fence of the
College Station park were put in
concr-ete yesterday.
Lynch To Deliver
Graduation Speech
William W. Lynch, president and
general manager of the Texas
Power and Light company, has
been chosen to deliver the com
mencement address May 21.
The selection was announced by
W. H. Delaplane, chairman of the
convocation committee.
Lynch, who lives in Dallas, has
been president of the Texas Power
and Light company since 1949. He
was graduated from A&M in 1922.
He is also director of the Re
public National Bank of Dallas,
director and member of the exe
cutive committee of Texas Em
ployers’ Insurance association, vice
president and director of the Texas
Utilities company, director of the
Edison Electric institute, conselor
of the A&M Research foundation,
and director of the Dallas county
chapter of the American Red Cross.
City Election Set
For Next Tuesday
Elections for mayor and three
city councilmen of College Station
will be Tuesday, April 6, at the
city hall.
Mayor Ernest Langford, and
councilmen, Joe Sorrells, A. P.
Boyett and Marion Pugh are run
ning for re-election.
No other candidates have filed
for any of the offices.
Langford is completing his
twelth year as mayor of the city
of College Station.
Pugh is councilman for ward
one, Southside district; Sorrells is
councilman from ward two, College
Hills district; and Boyett is coun
cilman for ward three, Northside.
Agronomy Group
Picks Cotton Queen
A delegation of Agronomy socie
ty students led by 1954 King Cot
ton Dave Richmond, selected Miss
Barbara Brown, TSCW junior, as
the 1954 Cotton Queen.
The two royal persons will reign
at the Cotton Ball April 23 in Sbisa
hall.
Duchesses and their escorts are
Peggy Bishop, Bill Andrews; Caro
lyn Dieter, Andy Cuellar; Nancy
Dieterich, Jim Altus; Jane Ellis,
Hal Hegi; Fayrene Dietert, Frand
Ford; Nancy Coates, Murray Mil
ford; Betty Ready, Eugene Buck-
holts, and Grace Smith, Ken Rich
mond.
The final selection of the queen
and her court was made Sunday
morning after a weekend of pic
nicking, dancing and socializing by
the nine-man selection committee
and the 32 candidates selected by
the four classes at TSCW. Each
class nominated eight candidates
for queen.
Some of the committee arrived
on the TSCW campus Friday night.
or early Saturday afternoon.
At 4 p.m. Saturday, the “Tessies”
sponsored a picnic at their Wom
en’s Recreation association cabin
on half-filled Lake Dallas.
The group was transported to
the cabin by bus and returned the
same way after about two and a
half hours of games and refresh
ments and “getting to know each
other.”
A formal dance to records was
held Saturday evening from 8 to
12:30. At 8 Sunday morning, the
candidates accompanied the com
mittee to services in the TSCW
Little Chapel-in-the-Woods. After
breakfast in Hubbard hall, the
group deliberated for about an
hour and finally decided on their
queen, Miss Brown, an elementary
education major from Dallas.
Weather Today
Continued cloudiness and partly
cloudy this afternoon. Outlook for
tomorrow with scattered showers.
High temperature for yesterday
87. Low this morning 58. •