D. B. COFFER
COLLEGE ARCHIVIST
MSC, FE
ily
To 90 Per Cent
Of Local Residents
Hattahon
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 219: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1954
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price 5 Cents
THOUSANDS WATCH—Thousands gather on the lawn of the Memorial Student Center
for the annual Muster ceremony yesterday. The program was rebroadcast over the Tex-
Quality Network last night.
Shivers Emphasizes Peace
In Annual Muster Speech
.News of t he World
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Says Agriculture
Domestic Problem
Twisters, hail, rain and dust hit sections of West Texas
Wednesday as a cool front pushed through. Two tornadoes
dipped from a black thundercloud and spun through a farm
ing area north of Fort Stockton, sucking the roof off a house
as a farm couple huddled in their living room. Nobody was
hurt. There were unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in the
air southwest of Midland and near the Terminal community
10 miles west of Midland.
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HANOI, Indochina — Vietminh besiegers squeezed
Dien Bien Phu’s French Union defenders into a shrinking
circle of reddish mud about 1 '/4 miles across yesterday.
The rebels kept digging ever closer to the barricades in a
downpour of rain.
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AUSTIN—A 14 per cent drop in draft delinquency in
Texas during the first quarter of 1954 was reported by state
selective service Director Paul L. Wakefield. Wakefield said
656 men were listed as delinquent as of the end of March.
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Governor Allan Shivers issued a plea for peace yester
day, speaking at the 51st annual Aggie Muster here.
“Most of the world has put its faith in American leader
ship and in our country’s attempts to establish a permanent
peace,” he said. “Our country must continue to put its faith
in God and we renew our efforts to bring about lasting peace
on earth.”
“I feel certain that most of you men, training here in the
methods of war, hate war as most military men do,” Shivers
said.
Agriculture is the country’s biggest domestic problem,
according to the governor, especially farm surpluses.
*" “This situation offers the
people of America one of the
best opportunities in their his
tory to help themselves by
helping others,” Shivers said.
‘Hospitality !
Lists To Be
In MSC Today
He suggested using America’s
food surpluses to feed starving
people in other countries. . .s '
US Planes Plying
French Paratroops
MOSCOW—The biggest budget in Soviet history
went before Parliament for approval yesterday. Finance
Minister Arseny G. Zverev said defense appropriations
—17.8 per cent of the total—“strengthen the defense
capabilities of our state.”
it it it
GALVESTON—The Greater Galveston Bedcli associa
tion issued a call for volunteers to smear suntan lotion on
some 75 bathing beauties at Galveston’s Splash day cele
bration May 1-2. In short order, nearly 100 bachelors and
one married man applied. Later, the married man changed
his mind because, he said, his wife “might not understand.”
6 Clever Plans’ Would
Blunt Group—McCarthy
General Election
Filings Completed
Filing closed yesterday for the
general election Tuesday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Those who filed yesterday are
as follows:
Class of ’55 student senator;
Thurman H. Johnson, Hollis H.
Bowling, Theo Lindig, J. P. Goode,
J. F. Franz, L. B. Laskoskie,
Bonny Tutt, Charles E. Bowel's,
Dusty Canon, Bill Bass.
Buck Isbell, Chuck Newman, Bob
Williams, Robert Alcock, Joe Ed
King, Gordon E. Tate, Fair Colvin,
Joe M. Jejia, J. B. Lilley, Harold
Fox.
Class of ’56 student senator;
Billy Berryhill, Gene Stubble
field, David Parnell, Ernest
Biehunko, Clifford Condit, Bob
Francis.
Class of ’57 student senator;
Glynn Chandler, Stephen Scott,
James Starr jr., Jon Cobb,
Non - military student senator;
George Allen, Wallace Larson, Al
fred Nichols, Jerry Schnepp, Ben
Vance, Dave Lane, Carl Livesy.
Battalion corps co - editor; T.
Harri Baker.
Student Life committee, non-
military; Charles Cocanougher.
Accident Croup
To Meet Friday
The Accident Prevention commit
tee will meet Friday to discuss
recommendations to the president.
The recommendations will cover
composition of the committee,
plans for continuity in the com
mittee, a full time or part time
safety coordinator, methods for
utilizing departments in teaching
safety, and removal of hazards
from the campus.
The meeting will be in the YMCA
at 4 p. m.
Members of the committee are
Bennie Zinn, chairman, Carl Tish-
ler, Howard Badgett, Welcome
Wright, Roy Garrett, Lt. Col.
Robert Melcher, A. A. Price, E.
B. Middleton, C. M. Simmang,
Fied Mitchell, John Hill, and Harri
Baker.
When the 1942 Aggie Muster
was held on Corregidor on one of
those final days before its surren
der to the Japanese, the conditions
or incentive for a gathei'ing could
not have been worse.
I know, because I was there.
Although I wasn’t an Aggie at
the time, having gone directly into
the Navy after being graduated
from high school, I was born and
reared among Aggies and already
had considerable knowledge of the
intense bond of fellowship which
magnetically draws them together
wherever they meet.
Across the entrance to Manila
Bay is a string of three small is
lands. Corregidor, the larger one,
is flanked by Caballo Island and a
concrete fortification called Fort
By ROGER D. GREENE
WASHINGTON, April 21 (/Pi-
Secretary of Defense Wilson con
firmed today that U. S. air force
planes ai'e flying French para
troops from France to Indochina
to reinforce the Communist-be
sieged fortress of Dien Bien Phu.
Wilson said the move is being
undertaken “at the request of the
French government” and is “in
line with present United States
policy” of providing military aid
to America’s allies.
He emphasized that the planes
will land at airfields outside the
A&M To Give 827
Degrees This Year
Eight hundi’ed and twenty stu
dents are candidates for degrees
at commencement, May 21.
Eighty - eight are candidates
for advanced degrees.
W. W. Lynch, president and
general manager of the Texas
Power and Light Co., Dallas, will
deliver the commencement address.
The ceremonies will be held in the
new Physical Education building,
at 7:30 p. m.
The School of Engineering has
288 candidates for degrees; Agri
culture, 205; Arts and Sciences,
196; Veterinai’y Medicine, 43.
Speaker Not Set
For Press Banquet
A speaker has not been selected
yet for the press club banquet and
dance May 14, said B. C. (Dutch)
Dutchei*, president of the Press
club’s Executive committee.
All students who work on stu
dent publications will attend the
afafir. College officials will also
be invited.
Watches will be presented to the
editors of the six publications.
Staff members will receive keys.
Drum. I was staioned on Caballo,
with perhaps three quarters of a
mile of water between me and Cor
regidor.
For the 25 Aggies on Corregidor
to gather for a Muster on April 21,
some of that number must have
Rue Pinalle
Pea lures Com bo
Saturday night’s Rue Pinalle will
feature a floor show and dance
music by the Capers Combo from
8:30 till 12:00.
Next to the last Rue Pinalle of
this school year, it will be held
in the games area of the Memorial
Student Center.
Dress is optional for benefit of
those attending the informal Air
Force ball that night, said Rue
Pinalle Manager Bill Kalil.
combat zone to unload the French
troops who will then be dropped
into Dien Bien Phu Horn other
planes piloted by French airmen
or American fly-for-pay civilian
pilots.
Officials here also confirmed
that U. S. air force planes will
fly additional French reinforce
ments - possibly including famous
Morocco Goum fighters — from
North Africa to the Indochina war
theater.
Wilson’s statement at his news
conference came amid a series of
other developments indicating a
sudden quickening of tension in
the critical Far East situation.
These included:
1. The Peiping radio charges the
United States is stepping up its
“military ventures” in Indochina.
The broadcast did not elaborate
on the nature of the ventures, but
warned that Red China “will cer
tainly not refrain from doing some
thing” about what it called “armed
aggression.”
2. Secretary Wilson announced
that President Eisenhower has ask
ed Gen. James Van Fleet, retired
formed commander of the U. S.
8th Army in Korea, to survey the
military aid programs in the Far
East-especially in Korea and For
mosa.
3. Secretary of State Dulles, ar
riving in Paris en route to the
Geneva Big Four conference which
begins next Monday, arranged to
confer with French Foreign Min
ister Georges Bidault on the Indo
chinese situation.
4. Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) of
the Senate Foreign Relations com
mittee and Chairman Ferguson (R-
Mich) of the Senate GOP Policy
committee, said in separate inter
views they see little pi’ospect either
of uniting Korea or bringing peace
to Indochina at the Geneve con
ference.
5. Vice President Nixon told
newsmen in Chicago that U. S. pol
icy has this purpose: “That Ameri
can boys will not have to fight
in Indochina or anywhere else.”
been exposed to shellfire in order
fm\ everyone to meet at a central
or pre-arranged point.
During the last 30 days of the
Japanese attack on the fortified
islands, the daylight hours were
filled with continual artillery shell
ing from the Bataan peninsula,
which was lined with Japanese bat
teries.
In the lull periods of the barrage,
flights of unopposed Japanese
planes, numbering from three to
27 aircraft, would shake the small
islands with sweeping bombing pat
terns.
It would be difficult to pick a
particular day out of the night-
maidsh series, since April 21 was
just another day to live through,
and had no particular significance
to me. But for those 25 Aggies,
it was a day to get together.
By RELMAN MORIN
HOUSTON, April 21 </P)—Sen.
McCarthy (R-Wis) asserted today
that “devilishly clever plans” are
being laid to sabotage the Red-
hunting efforts of the Senate In
vestigating subcommittee which he
heads.
He called the Senate hearings
which begin tomorrow into his dis
pute with the ai’Vny a “television
show of Adams versus Cohn.”
In a speech delivered at Texas’
San Jacinto battleground, where
Texas won independence from
Mexico 118 years ago today, Mc
Carthy declared: ,
“Plans are now being cleverly
laid—plans to make it impossible
for the investigating committee to
Top Wing Soph
To Be Approved
Recommendations for outstand
ing wing sophomore have been sub
mitted to the military department
for approval, said William M.
Reed, first wing commander.
Two names were submitted, he
said, and announcement of the win
ner will be made Mothers’ Day.
Selection and rating of candi
dates was based on the individual’s
overall grade point ratio, military
science grades, cadet activities and
interviews. The students whose
names were submitted are also in
competition for outstanding corps
sophomore.
One thing is certain. It was not
a matter of strolling to a hilltop
to gather under a mango tree for
a bull session.
Only the members of the Muster
group could tell what hazards they
endui'ed to gather at one spot, and
many of them made their last Mus
ter that April day on Corregidor.
Of the 25 who were there, 10 are
dead and three others are missing.
It wasn’t until after I had sur
vived 40 months in a Japanese pris
on camp and had returned to the
United States that I learned of the
Muster on Corregidor.
There are many things which
occur during a war that are colored
completely out of proportion to the
true facts. The Aggie Muster on
Corregidor was not one of these.
I know, beeause I was there.
continue as an effective instrument
to expose and fight the Commu
nist conspiracy.
“I know all about the plans. They
are clever — devilishly clever—and
some good men are being used.”
McCarthy said the alleged plot
pivots around proposed changes in
the rules under which the commit
tee operates.
He appeared before a crowd es
timated by police at 9,000, clustered
around the towering San Jacinto
monument. The size of his audi
ence was smaller than previous op
timistic estimates.
Brain Injury Puts
Lanktree In Hospital
Hugh Lanktree, junior from
Buenos Aires, Argentina, is in the
college hospital with a brain con
cussion.
He received the concussion when
he was thrown by a horse at Pos-
som Kingdom lake last weekend.
He will probably be out of the
hospital soon, said Dr. J. E. Marsh,
college doctor.
Students can sign up for
Prof Hospitality night today
in the Memoi'ial Student Cen
ter.
Each of the 122 professors
who is participating in the
night has a list, with places
fox* his requested number of
students to sign. All the lists
are in the MSC, near the
fountain room.
The night, sponsoi’ed by the
Faculty Relations committee
of the Student Life committee,
is designed to get students and
pi’ofessoi’s better acquainted.
The table with the lists is
being operated by the members
of the Y Cabinet. Ronnie Hud
son is president of the Cabinet.
Ty rec To Receive
Journalism Award
James B. Tyi’ee, senior poultry
husbandi’y majox-, will x'eceive a
$500 agricultural journalism
scholai'ship, sponsoi'ed by the Clay
ton Fund.
Tyree will take two extra semes-
ters work next year and receive
his BS degree in agidcultural
journalism.
Lester S. Smith, senior agricul
tural education major, also re
ceived one of the $500 scholarships.
“Anyone who has coinpleted two
years of college woi’k and intends
to enter agriculaural jouinalism is
eligible for the scholarship,” said
Don D. Burchard, head of the
joui'nalism department. They are
given on the basis of scholastic re
cords, sincerity of purpose, poten
tiality in the field, and financial
need.
This is the second year the
awards have been made. Present
holders of the scholarships are
Robert Mayo and Calvin Pigg.
“I think we can all agree that
well-fed people are less likely to
start wars than are people on the
bi’ink of starvation,” he said.
Shivers said that water was the
“number one” problem in the state
of Texas.
“Texas usually has plenty of
water,” he said, “but, all too oftex.,' * 1
it has too much water in the wrong
place at the wiong time and not
enough in the right place at the
right time.”
He said the state needs better
storage and distribution facilities
for existing water and for the wa
ter that now di’ains off into the
Gulf of Mexico.
The governor said he is convinc
ed that the spirit of Aggieland i$
“more than just the spiidt of a
great college.”
“It is, in reality, the same spirit
which has made it possible for our
nation to emerge successfully fi'om
every war in its glorious history,”
he said.
Shivers was introduced by Presi
dent David H. Mor-gan. Others
taking part in the Muster ceremo
ny were Chaides Parker, Pat Wood,
Fi’ed Mitchell, Vol JM. (Monty)
Montgomery, the Singing Cadets,
the Ross Volunteer firing squad,
and the A&M band.
Aggies To Judge
Boy Scout Camp
Members of the Boy Scout
oi'ganization class will pax-ticipate
in the campox - ee to be held at Camp
Arrowmoon Apxdl 30—May 1.
The Aggie scouters will help the
officials of the Bi’yan and Burle
son districts in judging competition
between txeops in scouting skills.
Tx-ansportation for the students
has been provided for by Maj. O.
H. Fxanks, Air Force Laison Of
ficer for Senior Scouting.
Magazine Editors
Must Be Certified
Candidates for editor of the
Engineex 1 , Commentator and Agri
culturist must be cei'tified by the
manager of student publications,
said Cax-1 Jobe, assistant manager
of student publications.
The cex-tification will be based
mainly on the length of service on
the magazine staff, along with in
dividual ability, he said.
Editoi’s for the magazines will be
elected by their school councils in
May.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Mostly cloudy today. Tigh tem-
perature yesterday 83. Low thi*
morning 56. j
MUSTER SPEECH—Gov. Allan Shivers gives the address
at the annual Muster ceremony yesterday. Behind him are
Dr. David H. Morgan, president, and the Singing Cadets.
‘I Was There'
Corregidor Muster Hazardous
By BOB BORISKIE
Battalion Co-Editor