Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 218: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1954 Price 5 Cents Muster Ceremony To Be Held Today In Front of MSC Ag-gie Muster, paying tribute on Texas Independence day to those who died for Texas’ freedom and for the Aggies who have died dur ing the year, will be held today. Ceremonies on the campus will be at 4:30 p. m. in front of the Memorial Student Center. Gov. Allan Stivers will de liver the Muster address. The playing of the “Star Spang led Banner” by the band will open the program. Charles Parker will give the in troductions and the invocation will be given by Ide P. Trotter ji\, Corps chaplain. the board of directors of the A&M System, and Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of the corps, will be in troduced. “The Twelfth Man” will be sung by the Singing Cadets, and “The Spirit of Aggieland” will be played by the Aggie band. Roll call for the absent will be given by Vol Montgomery of Abi lene and the Ross Voleunteers will fire a rifle volley. The Singing Cadets will sing “Auld Lang Syne”, and silver taps will close the ceremony. More than 400 Musters will be held throughout the world. More than 5,000 pei’sons are expected for the Muster here. The Muster here will be re corded by the Texas Quality net work and broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p. m. tonight. Gov. Allan Shivers Muster Speaker by Shivers will be presented president David H. Morgan. Pat Woods, senior class presi dent, will speak on Muster tradi tion. J. Harold Dunn of Amarillo, president of the Association of Former Students and members of MSC Room Reservations Given Soon Reservations for Memorial Student Center guest rooms for any of the major events of the 1954-55 school year will be accepted between May 1 and May 31. A drawing will be held in June to determine who will receive the available accomodations. Only one room can be reserved for each event, and reservations *re not transfei’able. Requests for reservations made by former students will be placed with those, of the student body and the general public. After the drawings confirmations Will be mailed to individuals whose names were drawn. A room deposit may be mailed to the Center at any time after the confirmations are received or by the specified time on the confir mation. Room deposits not re ceived by two weeks prior to the desired date will result in auto matic cancellation of the reser vation. Individuals desiring accomoda tions may wire, write^or personally make the request at the hotel desk between May 1 and May 31. MSC Installs New Officers At Banquet Charles Parker and H. W. (Bud) Whitney were installed as president and vice-presi dent of the Memorial Student council at its annual meeting last night. The meeting celebrated the fourth anniversary of the MSC and its ac tivities. The class of ’54 is the first class which has been able to use the facilities of the MSC through four years; Forty appreciation awards were presented by the council members of MSC committees for the activi ties during the year. Oscar Garcia received a distinguished service award for his work with the dance committee and as did Parker for his work on the TV fund drive. John Samuels was given a watch for his service as president this year. Jerry Mosley, Helen Atterbury, Francis Schmidt, Margaret Long, and Samuels were in charge of the decorations. “The union should be the center of all cultural and social extra cur ricular activities on the campus”. Samuels said in his report to the council. He said the union should perform two functions; first to “teach the student how to spend his leisure time” and secondly to ive him a chance to practice citi zenship — service to society over self interest. Frank For— Secretary of State Dulles left for the Geneva conference last night, promising to seek an “honorable” peace in Indochina and a free, unit ed Korea. But Dulles served notice that he would oppose an expected Russian move to turn the Geneva meeting on Far East issues into a Big Five meeting on world prob lems. BURBANK, Calif., April 21— £ WASHINGTON, April 21—CP)— The state department disclosed yesterday it fired 309 persons dur ing 1963 on security charges, in cluding two employes suspected of espionage. Security officer Scott McLeod told a Senate appropria tions subcommittee the department had information on 148 of these employes indicating “Communist activity or associations, or member ship in Communist organizations.” HOUSTON, April 21—)_A tentative date of May 11 was set yesterday for start of the polio vaccine field test in Harris coun ty. Tentative plans call for the second shot to be given May 18, with a booster shot following on June 15. Starting today, The Battal ion will run daily a feature designed to present news of national importance in concise, easy-to-read form. The feature, headlined “News of the World”, will con sist of brief items of import ance to students and the rest of the college community, compiled in The Battalion of fice from the wii'es of the Associated Press. ‘Because of the fast-chang ing news events of today, we believe that this feature will be a service to our readers,” said Harri Baker, Battalion co-editor. provide complete facilities for both men and women without separating jurors. Sleeping quarters will be separated by a panel. The entire fourth floor will be the county jail with a 84-prisoner capacity. Adequate facilities will be provided for women prisoners and juveniles. A feature of the plans for the jail portion of the building will be a separate elevator which will deliver prisoners from the ground level to the jail area without taking them through the corridors of the building. Other Units Remaining two units will be lo cated on the north side of the central building. The building next to the main structure will house county tax ofices in the east section, while the west end. will contain the public welfare offices. The fourth or north unit will have the county agent office and home demonstration offices for both Negro and white persons in the east section. Public health of fices will be located in the west end of the building. On the north, or College Avenue side of the square, will be a 42-car parking lot, plus parallel parking space on all four sides of the square. Bonds for construction of the new court house were voted on Dec. 5 by a majority of about six to one in a very light turnout at the polls. Changes Planned For A&M Library Major changes scheduled for the next sevei’al months which will make the Cushing Library building cooler, lighter, larger and more comfortable and attractive have been announced by Robert Houze, librarian. Present plans call for air con ditioning to be installed during the summer, followed by new floure- scent lighting fixtm’es and in creased seating capacity for the library. Old and worn out chairs and tables will be replaced with modern equipment and the entire building will be redecorated. Walls and ceilings in all rooms will be paint ed, Houze said, and the oil paint ings on display in the library will be lighted for viewers. Morgan Protests Service Transfer President David H. Morgan has sent a letter to John Hannah, as sistant secretary of defense for manpower, protesting the transfer of service branch ROTC graduates to combat branches. Quoting from a Battalion story of April 15th, which said that the PMS&T expects “many seniors in oi'dnance, quartermaster and trans portation will be assigned to active duty in other branches,” Morgan said, “It is essential that we be able to guarantee to the student who qualifies for a contract for advanced training a commission on completion of that rtaining.” “As we informed you,” Moi'gan’s letter continued, “the morale of our corps of cadets, your future offi cers, is being seriously affected by doubt and uncertainty arising from the recent failings of the armed services to maintain the tra ditional ties of long standing with the military colleges.” Morgan ended the letter by re questing that “serious co-nsidera- tion be given the special problems of the military colleges and that a policy be established and issued for them so that they can continue to provide, in times of international security, as well as of armed neu trality, a constant supply of fine ofifeers with a high esprit de corps dedicated to serving their country to the best of their ability.” AF Camp Placing Completed Soon The exact summer camp as signment for air force juniors has not been made but will be released later this week, said Maj. Luther J. Westbrook, operations officer. The cadets will be assigned to one of ten air bases over the nation. The first session of camp will begin on June 20 with cadets re porting to one of the following bases: Norten air force base Calif., Max-ch AFB Calif., Long Beach AFB Calif., Nellis AFB Nev., Luke AFB., Williams AFB Ariz., or Goodfellow AFB Tex. The last session will begin on July 25 and will include March AFB and Bergstrom AFB Texas, Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Partly cloudy with decreasing cloudiness in late afternoon and decreasing winds. High yesterday 84. Low this morning 68.