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Number 209: Volume .53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1954
Price 5 Cents
Local Chamber
Will Begin Drive
For Membership
The College Station Boai’d of
City Development and Chamber of
Commerce will begin its member
ship drive April 13.
The purpose of this organization
is to “aid and sponsor the progress
and development of College Station
in every way possible.”
K. A. (Cubby) Manning is the
president of the group.
Dues to the association are $5.00
for individual membership, $6.00
for joint membership (husband and
wife) and $5.00 for business mem
bership.
All meetings of the board of di
rectors are open to any member
who wishes to attend.
There is a meeting the second
Monday of each month at the Col
lege Station State Bank at 4 p. m.
Many of the activities sponsored
by the organization last year in
cluded a welcoming committee to
new comers to the city during the
year, sponsoring a duchess to the
1953 Cotton Ball, co-sponsoring the
East-Texas Chamber of Commerce
meeting held at A&M April 13—
14, and the selling of license plates
at the Memorial Student Center.
Other contributions were to the
College Station Recreation council,
junior league baseball, contri
butions to the blood bank, and
helping with the evaluation of
A&M Consolidated high school.
MSC Begins
Air Condition
Unit Repairs
The Memorial Student Cen
ter’s air conditioning units
have been put into summer
working order by an extensive
mai ntainence program.
The two 150-horsepower com
pressors have been completely
overhaled and the entire system
checked, said C. G. Haas, assistant
director of the MSC.
This is the first time since the
opening of the Center in 1950 that
any work of this type has been
done.
A 12-foot pot sink has been
added to the kitchen. It is a four-
basin sink especially designed for
the MSC, combining basins for
soaking, washing, rinsing, and gar
bage, all in a line.
The rinsing basin is equipped
»»> ith a special steam jet to scald
pots before drying, to safeguard
ugainst bacteria.
Also newly installed is a 29-foot
Stainless steel hood over the ranges
In the main kitchen.
They assisted in the College Sta
tion tuberculosis survey, the city
clean-up campaign, the school
medical and dental examinations,
and the city traffic safety and
sanitation problems.
Standing committees appointed
to take care of such activities in
clude education, legislative, ath
letic, public health and safety, agri
culture, churches, finance and mem
bership.
Sophomore Ball
Tickets On Sale
In Goodwin
Tickets for the Sophomore
ball Saturday are now on sale
in the student activities of
fice, second floor of Goodwin
hall.
Price of the tickets is two
dollars, stag or date.
The tickets will be on sale in
the student activities office until
noon Saturday. Tickets may be
purchased at the door of Sbisa
hall that night.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra and dancing
will be from 9 to 12 p.m.
Committee chairmen are dance,
Frank. Waddell; program, John
Sutherland; guest, Tommy Short;
ticket, Paul Holladay and Guey
Andrews; sweetheart, Jan Broder
ick; decojations, Leroy Williams;
and publicity, Jan Broderick.
A class sweetheart will be select
ed from the five finalists at the
dance.
The finalists are Anne Thompson,
Waco, escorted by Weldon Walk
er; Patsy Carter, houston, escorted
by Jon Schuenemann; Jeannette
Cline, Huntsville, escorted by Jack
Quinn; Ann McArron of Brecken-
ridge, escorted by Ronald Robbins
and Myra Stewart, escorted by
Bill Thressen.
Student-Prof Banquet
Has Been Postponed
The date and plans for The
Battalion’s annual student - prof
banquet are still undecided, accoi’d-
ing to Harri Baker, co-editor of the
Battalion.
The banquet is usually held dur
ing the early part of April and
Baker said thei'e will definitely be
one before school is out.
The holdup is planning the ban
quet is due to the recent resigna
tion of The Battalion staff, said
Bakei\
Reactor Being Planned
For College Laboratory
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Intercollegiate
Rodeo Starts
Here Tonight
WHOOPS—Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student
Center and member of the College Station Kiwanis club,
practices flipping pancakes for the Community Pancake
Supper to be sponsored by the College Station and Bryan
Kiwanis clubs April 10 at the Bryan Municipal Country
club. Incidentally, the pancake missed the grill on the
way down.
Kiwanis Clubs Hold
Pancake
Supp
er
The College Station-Bryan Ki
wanis clubs will sponsor a com
munity pancake supper at the Bry
an country club, April 10 from 5
to 9 p. m.
Proceeds from the supper will
be used for underpriviliged children
and youth activities.
Charles LaMotte of the biology
department is the chairman the
ticket committee, for the College
Station area.
Tickets may be purchased at the
Memorial Student Center main
desk, Lipscomb’s pharmacy, north
gate, Black’s pharmacy, east gate
and Bailey’s pharmacy, south gate,
said LaMotte.
Tickets may be purchased from
any Kiwanis member for 50 cents.
Prizes will be awarded to the top
ticket selling committee, individual
person and individual student.
Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center, will be
the head chef at the suppei*.
Film Society Shows
“Kiss of Death” Friday
The A&M Film society will show
“Kiss of Death” tomorrow in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom.
The film stars Richard Widmark
and Victor Mature. The movie
will start at 7:30 p.m.
Wildlife Men
Climbs Trees
To Band Birds
The wildlife department is
up in the trees again.
They are watching nests to
catch young doves so they
can band them as soon as the
birds are old enough.
The band is a small metal
plate around the birds leg. It
identifies the location of the
nest and the date the bird was
caught.
They have banded about six
biids so far this year. Last
year they banded 44 birds.
If a hunter finds a banded
bird, he is asked to return the
band to the Fedeial Wildlife
reserve at Washington, D. C.,
so a record of the birds’ habits
can be kept.
Four of the bands put on
here last year have been re
turned. Three of them were
frofn young bii'ds in this area.
Pioneer Releases
Service Figures
Pioneer airlines has carried
908,691 passengers over 246,000,-
000 accident free miles in its nine
years service.
A total of 168,003 passengers
were carried in 1953. Appioximate-
ly 10,000 passengers are carried
monthly by the airline.
Senate Requests
Wo Election Signs 5
The executive committee of the
student senate has requested that
candidates for class offices not use
signs in their campaigning.
The request is based on a rec
ommendation by last year’s senate
which considered the use of signs
as not in the best Aggie traditions.
The senators suggested that the
candidates personally introduce
themselves to the voters.
This action by the senate execu
tive committee is not binding since
college regulations permits the use
of signs in elections, said Bennie
Zinn, assistant dean of men.
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‘LOOKS SHARP’—Maj. Clarence W. Coyne, ROTC instructor at Trinity university in
San Antonio and a member of the army federal inspection team, shakes hands with Fred
Vogelsang, freshman from Ballinger, at the dormitory inspection this morning. At left
is Vogelsang’s roommate, Ronald Joe Bush of Odessa. _
No Decrease Seen
In Cigarette Sales
Local tobacco sales are holding
their own in 1954, despite stories of
cigarettes and lung cancer.
Six North Gate dealers saw no
noticable change in sales, and one
saw a distinct increase.
Memorial Student Center tobacco
sales are slightly below normal,
said C. L. Atamar, MSC purchasing
agent. Fewer MSC activities and a
drop in A&M enrollment were the
reasons Atmar gave for the drop in
MSC tobacco sales.
The United States Department
of Agriculture reported that 1953
tobacco sales dropped two per cent.
National tobacco sales have re
portedly decreased in 1954.
Local dealers saw 1954 sales
leveling off. They have sold more
coik and filter tipped cigarettes
this year than pfeceeding years,
, they said.
Any changes in college regula
tions must be made by the aca
demic council.
The student senate has the power
to recommend to the academic
council that the regulations be
changed immediately to prohibit
the use of signs. The senate will
meet tonight.
The executive committee of the
academic council could, at its meet
ing next Tuesday, change the regu
lations temporarily. The full
council would have to consider the
recommendation at its monthly
meeting.
Wea th er Today
Many Departments
Could Use Machine
A radio chemistry laboratory for the college is in the
preliminary planning stage, said Howard W. Barlow, dean
of engineering.
Present plans are to have a “swimming pool” type of
nuclear reactor which would be designed by the college staff,
Barlow said. The reactor could be used for research by the
physics, biology, chemistry, veterinary medicine and engi
neering departments.
Clinton Walker, of the electrical engineering department,
spent a year and a half at Oak Ridge, Tenn. designing instru
mentation for nuclear reactors. He would be the logical
choice to head the designing of a reactor for A&M, Barlow
* said.
Barlow, President D. H.
Morgan, W. T. Doherty, mem
ber of the A&M board of dir
ectors, and Walker, recently
attended a University Research
Reactor conference in Oak Ridge.
The purpose of the conference
was to acquaint the university of
ficials with the types of nuclear
reactors and their possibilities.
Research scientists of the Oak
Ridge Research laboratory explain
ed in detail the design character
istics of nuclear reactors and the
possibility of university reseai’ch
with them. The delegates were al
so shown the famous Uranium
Graphite and the “swimming pool”
type features of the Oak Ridge Na
tional laboratory.
There are many uses to which
a research reactor may be put. The
production of isotopes with short
lives which can be used as tracers
is one of the functions of the re
actor.
Tracer technique permits the
tracing of the path that various
minerals or other elements make
while going from the soil into the
stalks and leaves of plants, or of
particular medicines and chemicals
in the bodies of humans or ani
mals.
Tracer techniques can be used to
determine the causes of wear in
machinery, the flow of water in the
subgrade beneath pavement or in
any other problem which involves
any transfer of material or move
ments of matter or fluids.
The reactors can also be used
to determine the changes in sub
stances through irradiation by
neutrons or to determine better
means of shielding persons, pro
cesses and materials fi'om the ef
fects of atomic radiation.
The A&M reactor would also be
used to study the effect of radia
tion on various metals* plastics,
and other materials.
A nuclear energy committee has
been established in the school of
engineering. Dr. J. D. Lindsay of
the chemical engineering depart
ment is chairman of the committee.
One of the committee’s first
actions was the establishment of
a course in nuclear engineering. It
is taught by Professor R. V. An
drews.
The first performance of
the fifth annual Intercolleg
iate rodeo will be held tonight
at 8 p.m.
Twenty colleges and univer
sities will be represented in the
rodeo, sponsored by the Rodeo
club.
Events are bareback and saddle
bronc riding, brahma bull riding,
bulldogging, and ribbon and tie
down roping. Girl’s events are
barrel racing and goat tying.
Duke Gibbs of the Triangle Bell
ranch at Belton, will be stock pro
ducer. Judges for the events are
Leon Locke of Hungerford, Floy
Saxon of College Station, Johnny
Bowen and Johnny Mellon, both of
Belton.
Radio announcer will be Blake
McCreless, radio farm director for
station KONO, San Antonio.
The rodeo will be held tonight,
Friday and Saturday nights at
8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m.
Review For Finals
Will Be Discussed
The question of a review period
before final examinations will be
discussed by the student Arts and
Sciences council in their Monday
meeting according to Charles C.
Neighbors jr., president.
Other business will include re
ports from committees on High
School Day and departmental hon
or societies. Old business concern
ing Phi Beta Kappa and student
appx’eciation award selections will
be continued.
Neighbors asks that all corps
members wear number one winter
uniform with blouses so that the
Aggieland picture can be made.
PARTLY CLOUDY
Continued cloudiness today with
northeast winds. High tempera-
ture yesterday 50. Low this morn
ing 38.
Draft Deferment Test
Scheduled for April
The draft deferment test will be
given here April 22.
The test is given to college stu
dents all over the country to help
determine whether or not they are
entitled to a scholastic deferment.
After grading, the tests are sent
to the student’s draft board.
Andrews To Speak
To Singing Cadets
Dr. W. H. Andrews, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Bryan,
will speak at the Singing Cadets’
awards banquet April 24 in the
ballroom of the Memorial Student
Center.
The banquet will be a smorgas
bord with each member bringing
one guest. In addition to the cadets
and their visitors, there will be 25
honor guests.
Special awards will be given to
the cadets in recognition of their
service.
Marshall Publisher Will
Speak Here Tuesday
Millard Cope, publisher of the
Marshal News Messenger, will
speak to the Journalism club Tues
day in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
His topic will be “How National
and International News Can Be
Applied at a Local Level.”
Wednesday morning he will
speak to Otis Miller’s public re
lations class.
Local Scouts Pass
Board of Review
Five Boy Scouts of College Sta
tion troop 450 passed a board of
review for advanced Scout rank
Tuesday night.
The Scouts and the rank for
which they qualified were Joe Far
rar, second class; and Kenneth
Thompson, Gordon Darrow, John
Beaty and Jud Rogers, all first
class.
Members of the board were Leon
Gibbs, veterinary anatomy depait-
ment; Howard Weaver, Texas
Forest service; and C. G. Haas,
assistant dh-ector of the Memorial
Student Center.
The advancement bages will be
presented at a Court of Honor
April 13, said Sergeant T. M. Buf
ord, assistant scoutmaster and
also
the
advancement chairman.
The Couit of Honor will
initiate 19 candidates into
troop.
The candidates ai’e Fred Brison,
Dennis Floyd, Joe Johnston, David
McQuire, Alex Quisenberry, Jim
W. Andres, Billy Bernard, George
Somerville, Matt Gaddis, Julius
Lowell.
Gary L. Pedei’son, Don Harrison,
Bob Adams, Jack Armistead, John
D. George, Bardin Nelson, Tom
my Ledbetter, James Riggs and
Bob White.
Troop 450 is sponsored by the
College Station Lions club. It meeti
at the St. Thomas Espiscopal
chapel. Assistant scoutmasters ard
Buford and William Mattijaw, _