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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
~ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1954
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price 5 Cents
HIGH COLLARS—John Stark buttons Ed Wulfe’s collar
as Wulfe tries on his Ross Volunteer uniform, getting-
ready for the RV banquet and dance Saturday. The ban
quet will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center
ballroom. The dance will be in the ballroom after the
banquet.
Even Fox Hunting
Hiding Classes
Proposed for A&M
By NEO GRANGER
Battalion Staff Writer
Kenneth C. Biesnen, ’43, of
Aiken, S. C., has presented Presi
dent David H. Morgan a proposal
to establish a riding class at A&M.
Bresnen suggests that riding in
struction be established as an elec-
Local Scooters
Hear Council
Head Speak
Minor Huffman of Houston,
Ecout executive of Sam Hous
ton area council, as the main
speaker at the Together Din
ner in the Parker dining room
yesterday.
Huffman discussed of scouting
in the Brazos-Robertson district.
Judge W. S. Barron presided at
the dinner and was assisted by C.
E. Liles, field director.
A film, “The Years Between,”
was shown to the group following
the discussion.
W. D. Bunting, pi’oject chair
man, was in charge of the separate
discussion groups among the dif
ferent troop sponsoring instutions.
R. C. Dansby, chairman of the
district scout committee, conclud
ed the meeting with the theme
“Where do we go from here.”
Twenty-four instutions were re
presented with 158 persons pre
sent.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Cloudy all day with heavy thun
der showers. High yesterday 79.
Low this morning 64,
tive part of the college curriculum
in which students could enrol to re
ceive credit for physical education.
Polo could be added as a school
sport together with jumping, horse
shows, a mounted drill team and
perhaps even fox-hunting, said
Bresnen.
As Bresnen visualized equitation
in the A&M curriculm, there would
be four classes.
The students having had little or
no previous riding experience
would be placed in a beginners
class for instruction on funda
mentals of riding, saddling and
bridling of the horse.
Students who would be compet
ent at walk, trot and canter would
be placed in the intermediate riders
class for instruction on beginning
jumping and care of the horse.
For the more advanced student,
the advanced riders class would be
available. Instruction would include
advanced equitation, advanced
jumping, stable management and
fundamentals of schooling the
horses.
The instructor’s ride, which
would be limited, to senior students
who would be qualified advanced
riders, would include instimction
on horsemastership and the techni
que of instructing equitation.
The operation of the large stable
on the campus would provide part-
time student employment. There
would be stable work morning and
evening for several students. In
addition several seniors from the
instructors ride class would be em
ployed to work with beginner and
immediate riders.
Other colleges offering riding
in their curriculum ai’e UCLA,
Stevens college, Christian college
and Lindenwood.
Bresnen has studied under the
prominent society riding master
W. H. Gaylard whoses clients have
been such families as the Vander
bilts Whitneys, Graces, Corys and
and Bostwick’s.
Riding tuition would be eighty
dollars per semester, which would
be payable at matriculation, said
Bresnen.
Aggie Band Will March
In San Antonio Parade
The Aggie band will go to San
Antonio Thursday to march in
“The Battle of the Flowers.” '
The band will give a ten minute
exhibition of precision drill in
Alamo Stadium Thursday. Friday
they will march as the queen’s
honor band in the parade.
Most Offices To Be In Tuesday Run-Off;
Election Commission Announces Rules
Justice Hurt
In Dormitory
Last Night
Pete Justice, sophomore
from Sherman, suffered a
compound fracture of the arm
last night when he tripped in
the dark.
Justice fell over his foot locker
during the power failure and broke
both bones of his left forearm.
Last year he injured the same arm
in an automobile accident.
He was taken to Bryan hospital
at 12:35 a.m. This morning the
hospital described his condition as
“good.” Authorities at the hospit
al said Justice would probably
leave this afternoon, depending on
how he felt.
The power went off in buildings
and dormitories east of Military
walk about 5:30 p.m. yesterday.
The building lights were turned on
later in the evening, but dormi
tory lights were not repaired un
til about 4 a.m. this morning.
The power failure was caused by
lightning which struck some of the
lines.
No other serious injuries were
reported last night.
Fires Cost City
$5,531 This Year
Fires have cost the city of Col
lege Station about $5,531 above
fixed costs since July 12.
This year’s total operating ex
penses will amount to about $7,180
said Ran Boswell, city manager.
About $6,000 of this is spent in
preventative measures such as
mowing grass and weeds, he said.
This year there have been 14
fires within the city limits and one
outside of town.
“This year has been about
normal as to the number and
severity of the fires in and around
College Station,” Boswell said.
’Students Vote
By Classes
9
News Briefs
Students will vote with the class in which they are aca
demically classified in Tuesday’s run-off election.
The ruling was made by the election commission after
the question arose of fifth and sixth year non-military stu
dents voting in class elections.
The commission felt that graduate, fifth and sixth year
students were adequately represented in the student senate,
student life committee, and various other non-military offi
ces, Charles (Buddy) Foxworth said.
“It would not be fair for them to vote in elections of
classes of which they are not members,” he said. Foxworth
is chairman of the commission.
Student identification cards'
will be checked at the polls to
insure that no one votes out of
his academic classification.
Absentee balloting will be
allowed in the election. Absentee
ballots can be filed in the student
activities office, second floor of
Goodwin hall.
The rules for the Tuesday
election will apply to absentee bal
loting.
Run-off ballots are separate bal
lots, the commission ruled. N o
one will be selected to fill the va
cancies on this ballot brought
about by resignations, Foxworth
said.
He was referring to the resig
nations of Hugh Lanktree and
Frank Davis, non-military stu
dents who were candidates for sen
ior class vice-president and social
secretary respectively. /
They resigned to “further the
interest of more proportionate
representation in class offices” af
ter they had been elected to the
run-offs.
Before their withdrawal, one
non-military student would have
been a candidate for each senior
class position in the run-off.
Under college regulations the
election commission is responsible
for conducting all student elec
tions. Rulings made by the com
mission may be appealed to the
student senate.
Kiwanis
Pancake
The College Station-Bryan Ki
wanis clubs will sponsor a pancake
supper tomorrow night from 5 to
9 p.m. at the Bryan country club.
Proceeds from the supper will
be used for underprivileged chil
dren and youth activities in this
area.
Those from the College Station
club who will aid in the supper
are as follows:
General chairman, W. E. Briles;
tickets, Charles LaMotte, chair
man, and Dick Hervey; H. E. Bur
gess, coordinating chairman.
Procurement, Henry Miller,
chairman, and Harry Turner;
equipment and utensils, W. H.
Badge tt, assistant chairman;
chefs, Wayne Stark, head chef, W.
F. Adams, R. G. Cherry, D. B.
Cofer, Nelson Durst, R. L. Elkins,
W. H. Fincher, A. C. Magee, W. S.
Manning, W. M. Potts, L. S. Rich-
ai-dson, R. L. Skrabanek, J. J.
Sperry, J. H. Sorrells, Don Vestal,
Ralph Steen.
Publicity, Otis Miller, chairman,
and George Summey jr.; reception,
Ralph Rogers, chairman, and
Frank Anderson.
Parking, R. E. Leighton, chair
man, Joe Campbell, A. R. Orr,
Charles Richardson, R. M. Win-
gren.
A&M Scholarships
Are Poultry Prizes
Poultrymen from Texas and
other states will be represented in
the annual Chick, Poult and Egg
show May 8 said Alton Fuchs,
president of the Poulti’y Science
club.
This year’s show contains a
division for 4-H and FFA mem
bers which consists of chicks and
egg entries, Fuchs said. The boy
with the winning entry in each
class will be awarded a $200 poul
try husbandry scholai’ship to A&M.
Trophies will be awarded to the
champion and grand champion en
tries.
To Hold
Supper
Waiters, J. II. Southern, chair
man, and Jim Baty, C. B. Camp
bell, J. R. Couch, J. R. Johnston,
R. D. Lewis, R. D. Longshore, Rob
ert McCarty, J. G. McGuire, D. F.
Martin, B. H. Nelson, J. H. Qui-
senberry.
E. B. Reynolds, W. T. Riedel,
Dan Russell, J. W. Sorenson, Har
old Sullivan, Harry Thiers, W. E.
Wright, S. A. Kerley, Walter Dela-
plane, Charles Taylor, Charles
Byrd.
Bus boys, H. B. Adams, R. O.
Berry, Don Dale, Howard Gravett,
B. A. Hardaway, Mike Krenitsky,
Bill Krueger, R. E. Leighton, T. D.
Letbetter.
J. B. Longley, K. A. Manning,
J. S. Mogford, J. B. Page, Isaac
Peters, E. L. Williams, F. W. Hen-
sel jr., A. E. Denton, Curtis God
frey.
PROMOTED—John Akard,
senior business major from
Dallas, has been promoted
to Battalion feature editor.
The job includes handling
the lighter side of life in
the college community.
Voting Boxes
To Be in MSI 1
Most class officer positions are to be decided in the run
off election Tuesday, after the field of candidates was nar
rowed by the primary election this week.
The ballot boxes, in the Memorial Student Center, will
be open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Here are the cadidates, by classes:
Class of ’55
Running for senior class president will be Giles Schan-
en, Conrad Cummings and Don Friend.
Vice president candidates will be Charles Seely and
Lawrence Laskoskie. Hugh Lanktree, who was voted the run
off for vice president, withdrew his name Wednesday morn
ing.
THIRTY - FIVE RANGE and
forestry students will make a field
trip to Luling April 23. The pur
pose of the trip will be to study
native and improved ranges in
that area.
* * *
A ROSS VOLUNTEER platoon
will drill in the Neches River
Festival parade April 24 in Beau
mont. Drill teams from the Uni
versity of Texas and Sam Houston
state teachers college will also
march.
* * *
THE STATE FFA judging con
tests will be held hei’e May 1. Boys
from high schools all over Texas
who have won a high rating in the
area contests will participate.
* * *
THE HOUSTON Former stu
dents association will give the
Houston A&M hometown club a
barbecue at the Brazos county
A&M clubhouse April 29. Football
movies of the past season will be
shown.
* * *
KENNETH TIMMONS, ’52, has
been promoted to first lieutenant
in the seventh cavalry regiment in
Japan. Timmons is from Sweet
water.
* * *
J. R. JACKSON of the agricul
tural education department spoke
to the Tarleton Future Farmers
chapter at Stephenville Monday.
A&M students who attended the
meeting were Glenn Darling, Gar
rett Gai’d, Sammy Tatum and Gene
Williams.
* * *
GEORGE T. LEBLANC, ’52, has
been promoted to first lieutenant
in the 61st artillery battalion in
Japan. LeBlanc is a native of
Beaumont.
SATURDAY is the last day to
pui’chase tickets for the College
Station-Bryan Civic Music asso
ciation. Only members may at-
tnd the concerts. Single admis
sions will not be sold. Headquar-
ters for ticket buying is the La
Salle hotel.
Maybe Some
Don’t Like
The Food
Aggies must be fond of
candy. At least the records in
the office of student activities
show they are.
Mrs. Bebe Wilder, secretary
of Pete Hardesty, student
activities business manager,
said that 235,445 bars of candy
have been sold since Septem
ber. This is about 22,073
pounds of candy.
The candy sales since Sep
tember have been $11,772,
which is below the sales for
last year of $26,000.
X-Ray Unit Will Visit
Here Week of April 19
The mobile chest x-ray unit will
come to College Station Monday,
April 19, for a week’s tuberculosis
survey.
The unit will be here through
Saturday, April 24. X-rays will be
made in the Memorial Student Cen
ter from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Harry Boyer, head of the hous
ing office and in charge of the
survey, urged the following clas
ses to take advantage of the sur
vey:
1. A11 students and members of
their families over 15 years old.
2. All employes of the college
and members of their families over
15.
MSC Council Sets
Monday Meeting
The Memorial Student Council
council will discuss the wearing of
fatigues in the MSC at its meeting
at 7:30 p. m. Monday in the senate
chamber.
Fatigues can be worn in the
post office, fountain room and
throughout the MSC only in incle
ment weather, according to cadet
coi’ps regulations.
“Several complaints have been
received concerning just what the
policy of the council is on this
matter,” said John Samuels, presi
dent.
“An a matter of fact, the coun
cil has never expressed its opinion
in regard to the problem. Discus
sion and possibly action on the
matter is necessary at this meet
ing,” said Samuels.
Other items on the agenda are
committee reports on the council-
directorate banquet, Rue Pinalle,
the sex relation program and the
Aggie Muster.
3. All residents of College Sta
tion over 15.
4. All A&M Consolidated high
school and Lincoln high school stu
dents over 15.
The x-ray will be free. It will
not be necessary to remove articles
of clothing. Persons taking the
x-ray will be notified of the results
by mail, and all results are con
fidential.
Hometown Club
Shows Aggie Film
High school students of eight
southwest Texas towns will see the
film “We Are The Aggies” while
it is on a three day tour in that
area.
Sponsored by the Southwest Tex
as hometown club, the showings on
April 11, 12 and 13 are designed to
acquaint high school boys with
A&M and to build up ipterest in
the college.
Members of the club will be
available during the trip to answer
questions that might arise con-
cerning curriculums offered at
A&M, the athletic program, mili
tary life and other phases of in
terest.
Scheduled showings in c 1 u d e
Hondo, Devine, D’Hanis, Uvalde,
Crystal City, Carrizo Springs,
Pearsall and Cotulla.
In the run-off for secre
tary are Wallace Eversberg
and Dick Crawford.
Dave Ashcroft and Roy
Cline are running for social secre
tary. Frank Davis also withdrew
from the social secretary race,
after being voted into the run
off.
Treasurer candidates will be
John Cozad, Buck Isbell and Dick
McCasland. Running for parlia-
mentaiuan will be Jerry Johnson,
Billy Steele and Joe Stovall.
In the run-off for sergeant at
arms will be Tommy Durdin, Paul
Savage and Clarence Hatcher.
Yell leader candidates will be
Glenn Langford, Howard Childers
and Sam Akard. The candidate
with the most number of votes will
be head yell leader; the next man
will be senior yell leader.
Class of ’56
Running for president of next
year’s junior class will be Allen
Greer, Lloyd Billingsley and Tom
my Short.
Vice president candidates will be
Glenn Buell, John Liddy and Eu
gene Stubblefield.
Running for secretary will be B.
A. (Scotty) Parham and Richard
Tachibana.
In the run - off for social secre
tary will be Clay McFarland, Bob
Lee and Wayne Leveikuhn.
Treasurer candidates will be
Robert Whitley, Jack Pearson and
Larry Kennedy.
Ed Fries and Pete Scrivano will
will be in the run-off for sergeant
at arms.
Running for junior yell leader
will be David Baily, Paul Holladay
and John Cunningham. The two
with the most votes will be next
year’s junior yell leaders.
Class of ’57
John Peeler and Douglas De
Cluitt will be in the run-off for
next year’s sophomore class presi
dent.
Vice president candidates will be
Joseph Sanders, Jon Cobb and Irv
ing Ramsover.
Run-off candidates for social
secretary will be M. E. Melson and
Durward Thompson.
Running for sergeant at arms
^will be Howard Butter an Warren
Chapman.
Erwin Pavlik and Leon Curtis
will be in the run-off for parlia
mentarian.
MSC Council
In the run-off for junior-senior
representitive to the Memorial Stu
dent Center council will be Dave
Ashcroft and James R. Mathis.
Competition between corps stu
dents and non-military students
brought out a vote of 1,806 for the
primai-y election Tuesday.
The results of the primary
caused two non-military students
who were voted into the run-off to
withdraw their names. The stu
dents, Lanktree and Davis, said
they withdrew “in an effort to as
sure all concerned that we are not
trying to force a non-military slate
on the senior class.”
A non-military candidates was
voted into the run-off for each
senior class position at the pri
mary.
Fourth Installments
Due at Fiscal Office
Fourth installments are now due
and may be paid at the fiscal of
fice.
This is the last payment of the
year.
The amount due, including board
is $63.45. Without board it is
$16.70,
Fish, Sophomore
Math Contests Set
The mathematics contest will be
held Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30
p. m.
Freshmen contests will be held
in room 223 of the Academic build
ing, and sophomore contests will
be held in room 225.
Prizes offered in each of the
contests are as follows:
First prize, a gold wrist watch;
second prize, $15^ third prhWj ^IQa