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sc. t, COE^ S Circulated Daily ’ To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 224: Volume 53 Jhe Joattalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By ' A&M Students For 75 Years COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1954 Price 5 Cents Board To Study ew Cadet Articles AF Cadets Will Keep Same A&M Uniform A&M’s air force ROTC cadets •will not change to air force blue uniforms. President David H. Morgan made the announcement yesterday, after receiving a letter from ai^ force authorities ruling that A'&M’s pre sent uniform is distinctive. The present uniform will remain the same, except for a possible few minor changes, said Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. The changes will be aimed at making the uni form more standard throughout the corps. Yesterday’s decision on air force uniforms is the result of a series of events, beginning when the air force changed to a blue uniform several years ago. In July, 1952, A&M officials were told by the air force that the Trotter Selected 1 lonor Student HP lop Ide Trotter jr., chemical engi neering senior from Bryan, has been named valedictorian of the class of ’54. The valedictorian is chosen from candidates for their first bachelor’s degree. The one having the highest grade point ratio after the fall semester of his final year is vale- ilictorian. Trotter’s grade point ratio is 3.0. All work must be in this college, except for a maximum of 12 semester hours which may be taken during the summer vacations at other schools. The valedictorian must be a candidate for his de gree at the spring commencement, and cannot be a summer school graduate. Trotter has been active while a student here. During his freshman year he was a member of the freshman drill team, Battalion staff writer, and a member of the freshman Baptist Student union council, lie also won the chemical engineering section of the fresh man slide rule contest, was a dis tinguished student and a member of Phi Eta Sigma. During his sophomore year he was on the student senate, Bat talion copy editor, rifle team let- terman, president of Phi Eta Sigma, secretary of BSU council, reporter for the Bryan-College Station A&M club, Interfaith coun cil, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Trotter was United Nations Club To Hear Harry Brunger Harry A. Brunger, world service secretary of the YMCA of Hong Kong, will speak to the United Nations club at 7:30, Friday in the assembly room of the YMCA. Brunger started his career in Canton, China, in 1948 as YMCA program secretary. He and his family were forced to leave in 1950 by Communist forces and aftei*- ward joined the staff at Hong Kong. Brunger and his Chinese col leagues are trying to meet needs for education, recreation, job train ing and other basic services. “He has a wonderful grasp of the workings of Communism and you will appreciate his frankness in dealing with it,” said J. Gordon Gay, general secretary of the YMCA. In addition to speaking, Brunger will also be pi-esent at an open house from 3-5 p. m., Friday in the cabinet room of the YMCA. air ROTC cadets* here would have to be in blue uniforms by the fall of 1953. Later, the air force said the change - over could wait another year, but that air ROTC cadets would definitely have to be in the blue uniforms by the fall of 1954. In that letter, an air force official said “the air force was still opposed, in principle, to the ap proval of the uniforms of any other services for AFROTC students.” The alternative to AFROTC cadets wearing blue uniforms was for the whole corps to wear a dis tinctive uniform, such as the grays worn by cadets at West Point, The Citadel, and other military colleges. Last March, Morgan wrote the air force requesting that A&M’s present uniform be considered dis tinctive. He included pictures of the uniform. In that letter he said, “Our whole program is built on the basis of one corps . . . our belief is that the change of uniform would separate our present one corps into two corps creating a potential source of friction that would not be beneficial to the two services or to the col lege.” He also said that the increased cost of a cadet-gray type uniform would not be practical for A&M. Yesterday, Morgan received an answer to his request. H. Lee White, assistant secretary of the air force, said in the letter, “The air force has studied the problem and has concluded that our air force ROTC should Conform to the uniform requirements you pre scribe for Texas A&M.” “In Washington, they have fi nally become aware that A&M is different,” Morgan said yesterday. I | -H S3 — 1 tiiisiP® ■it V. :'Y 11111 TPf wmm 1 i U' m \ ■ F\ mm- U.S. Air Force Photo HERE IT IS—Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of the corpip (left), gives President David H. Morgan a copy of the re vised Articles of the Cadet Corps. The presentation was yesterday, at a meeting of the cadet commanders, first sergeants and sergeant majors. Corps Consolidation Recommended By HARRI BAKER Battalion Co-Editor The A&M system board of directors this weekend will consider a revision of the Articles of the Cadet Corps that would include having freshmen ROTC students living in mil itary units with upperclassmen. The provision of the recommended articles reads as fol lows : “Each company (squadron) level will be composed of cadets from all classes and will be housed together. All ca dets will live in a unit housed in a corps dormitory except married students, local day students and others with the specific approval of the commandant.” The complete revised Articles of the Cadet Corps will be presented to the board 4 “ Air Academy May Bolster Enrollment If the proposed Air Force acad emy is located at Bryan, the aca demic facilities of A&M will be offered during the first two years while permanent facilities are un der construction, Travis B. Bryan said yesterday. Bryan, president of the First Na tional bank and tireless worker in the effoi't to bring the academy to this area, said a high system offi cial had assured him that academy students could be accommodated. One of a list of 400 towns throughout the nation being con sidered by the site selection com mittee, Bryan is being presented to the committee through a detailed Ide P. Trotter jr. Valedictorian outstanding sophomore in the corps of cadets, and was a distinguished Student. Dui'ing his junior year he was pai’liamentarian of the student senate, sergeant on corps staff, executive committee of the BSU of Texas, on A&M BSU council, junior representative to engineers council from AIChE, AIChE, Interfaith council, junior advisor of Phi Eta Sigma. He won the DAR award for outstanding junior, a Chemical* Corps association medal, Tau Beta Pi, A I Ch E award for outstand- (See TROTTER, Page 2) Says Johnson Town Hall Ticks Is Are Going Fast Tickets to “Annie Get Your Gun” are going fast, said Bill Johnson, newly elected student entertain ment manager. “Over three fourths of the tickets to the Monday at 7 p. m. performance have been issued,” Johnson said. “Annie” is the seventh and last Town Hall show of the year. Per formances will be held Monday at 7 and 9:30 p. m. and Tuesday at 7 p. m. Johnson urged Town Hall season Weather Today SEVERE WEATHER Severe weather with tornado warnings in this area. Continued thunder storms today. High yes terday 86. Low this morning at 9 a.m, was 63, News of the World By the ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—The House today upheld President Eisenhower’s request for a flexible world strategy by beat ing down, 214-37, a proposal to limit the use of American troops in combat zones. Then it voted the armed services a post-Korea low of $28,684,250,486 in new money for the year ending in mid-1955. The defense budget which now goes to the Senate was approved on a roll - call vote. The House overwhelmingly defeated an amendment, by Rep. Coudert (R-NY), which would have required prior congres sional approval before any of the new money was used to support forces in combat in Indochina or other parts of the world which the United States is not obligated by treaty to defend. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN — Ralph Yarborough, who charges Gov. Allan Shivers with party disloyalty, will try for the second time to wrest the Democratic nomina tion for governor from Shivers. The 50-year-old Austin attorney and former district judge jumped in the race today, thereby assuring a test of wheth er Shivers lost votes when he supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower for the Presidency in 1952. “As a Democrat, I will not stand idly by while the Democratic party is again betrayed,” Yarborough said. ★ ★ ★ . HANOI, Indochina — French commandos in pre-dawn raids today struck Vietminh positions pressuring Dien Bien Phu’s shrunken defenses. The raiders smashed a string of rebel fortifications and killed at least 70 Vietminh before they were driven back into the bastion. The French con centrated their assault on the weakened northwest corner where the Red-led rebels have been massing for an all out thrust toward the heart of the.fortress barely 600 yards away. Plunging into the net work of Vietminh trenches and fox holes, the commandos routed the rebels at bayonet point. ticket holders to exchange their season ticket for a ticket to the performance of their choice. Tickets to the show are available for $2 for those who do not have Town Hall tickets. Tickets may be obtained at stu dent activities office or outside the dining halls tonight. If any tickets are left, they will be avail able at the door. “Annie” is based on the real life story of Annie Oakley, an almost legendary sharpshooter of the late 1800’s She was born in Darke county, Ohio in 1860. Her childhood was rugged, especially after her father died of exposure when she was four. Annie was only six when she took her father’s muzzle-loading rifle into the woods to hunt for food.. The two quail she brought back added considerably to the skimpy dinner menu. She never “learned” to shoot—it just came naturally. In those days, shooting matches were favorite sporting events and Darke county had its quota of ex pert marksmen. But Annie made them all look a little silly. Frank Butler, a professional, came to Cincinnati and, as was his custom, offered to shoot against anyone for $100 a side. Annie took him up on it. She not only won the match, she won Frank Butler. Six months later they were married and went on the road together as Butler and Oakley. After ten years of vaudeville headlining and exhibition shoot ing Annie and Frank joined Buf falo Bill’s Original Wild West show. They toured the United States and Europe extensively with the show. They both died in 1926. factual data brochure prepared by the Bryan banker. Information ranging from geographical location down through tax information and acquisition costs is included. The nomination of Bryan has the approval and support of many in fluential persons throughout the state as well as prominent national figures, Bryan said. First instructed to reach a deci sion on a site within 45 days, the committee insti’uctions were chang ed to require a decision <r within a reasonable period of time.” The new instructions will give the committee opportunity to more thoroughly examine the qualifica tions of the large number of sites under consideration. This change prevented the selec tion from being limited to the six original sites being considered since the academy was first proposed five yeai's ago, Bryan said. Since the act requires Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott to designate some existing air force base for the two-year opera tion pending construction of per manent facilities, Bryan Air Force Base is an ideal temporary air academy solution, Bryan said. Other advantages the area has to offer are abundant housing, schooling for the children the per sonnel influx would produce, cen tral location as to large cities in the state and year-round operation al climate, he said. Members of the site selection committee appointed by Talbott are Gen. Carl Spaatz, USAF (Re tired); Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Har mon, USAF; Dr. Virgil Hancher, president of the University of Iowa; Merrill Meigs, Hearst Cor poration, Chicago; and Brig. Gen. Charles E. Lindbergh, USAF. Film Society To Show ‘Johnny Belinda’ Friday The A&M Film society will show “Johnny Belinda” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Cen ter ballroom. The film stars Jane Wyman, who won an Academy award for her part as a deafmute. Mothers Day Dance To Be In Grove Student activities office will sponsor a free Mothers Day dance in the Grove from 9:00 ’til 12:00 p. m. May 8, said W. D. Hardesty, Business Manager. All students, their wives, dates, mothers and fathers are invited. Music will be fm-nished by Bill Turner and the Aggieland’ orche stra. members for their informa tion. However, the provision quoted above is the only one that requires board action. ‘No Hesitancy’ President David H. Morgan told The Battalion yesterday he has “no hesitancy” in recommending the revised Articles to the board. “The recommendations give more authority to the officers and more rights to the individuals,” he said, speaking of the complete Articles. Col. Joe Davis, commandant, said the revised Articles were “set up to improve the standard and rec ognize the rights and feelings of the individual members of the ca det corps.” Freshmen cadets are now living in a separate dormitory area from upperclassmen. They are living in military units with only a few ca det officers and non-commissioned officers to a unit. Freshmen were separated by bear'd action soon after World War II. Self Evaluation Result The proposed Articles of the Ca det Corps, including the consolida- tion-of-the-corps provision, are the result of a “self-evaluation” re quested by Morgan in September. At that time he asked cadet commanders, first sergeants, and sergeant majors to make q. self- evaluation . of the corps “for the organization, guidance,conduct and administration of the cadet corps, designed as an ideal corps for the latter half of the twentieth cen tury.” Morgan accepted the revised Ar ticles yesterday in a formal pre sentation attended by the cadet commanders, first sergeants and sergeant majors. In presenting the Articles, Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of corps, said, “It is the belief of this head quarters that these articles will provide a stable corps of cadets.” Moi'gan called the Articles the “best organization of any activity ever presented to me by a group of students.” Other Changes Besides the consolidation pro vision, the revised Articles also recommends other slight changes in cadet policy and corps operation. Other recommendations of the corps evaluation include a tenta tive physical structure recommen dation, based on consolidation; the wi-iting of a “Cadence”, traditions handbook; and standardization of the uniform. Other activities and departments of the college are also undergoing a self-evaluation, at the request of the president. He said the other recommendations would prob ably be presented at the July meeting of the board of directors. “We want to get action on the corps evaluation now so we can be gin planning for next year,” he said. Chem Engineer Group Holds Convention Here The student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers is holding its regional convention here today. The convention started this morning in the Memorial Student Center and will close with an awards banquet tonight at Maggie Parker’s in Bryan. Speaker at the banquet will be W. S. Franklin, head of the tech nical division at the Baytown re finery of the Humble Oil Co. Two students each from Rice, UT, U of H, Lamar Tech and A&M will present technical papers in competition for four cash awards totaling $75. Representing A&M Fifteen Aggies Receive Prizes In Contest Fifteen A&M students received awards from H. W. Barlow, Dean of the School of Engineering, for their work in the annual engineer ing drawing contest. The contest consisted of 5 divis ions with three winners in each division. The winners in each divis ion were: Working - drawing with instru ments: A. G. Owen, G. E. Bahl- mann, R. L. Burley; descriptive geometry problem: Jack R. Daft, H. C. Sampsell, and B. H. Baker. Freehand lettering problem: L. O. Cox, J. R. Matthews, and J. L. Calhoun; freehand pictorial: M. D. Keen, S. W. Johnson and D. M. Keithkamp. Architectural design problem: D. L. Williams, J. A. Samford, and R. O. Evans. Dr. W. E. Street, head of the engineering drawing department, introduced Col. Willard Chevalier, vice president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company, who spoke briefly at the ceremonies held in Anchor hall. Students enrolled in first and se cond semester courses competed for prizes. Entries were judged by B. M. Gallaway, civil engineering de partment, and C. D. Holland, chemical engineering department. in the contest are Hollie Briscoe speaking on “Cathodic Protection” and Ben Fort whose paper is en titled “Chemical Kinetics.” Briscoe, president of the A&M chapter, is in charge of arrange ments for the convention. Dr. W. D. Harris of the chemical engi neering department, is the faculty advisor. Five Seniors Get Faculty Awards Five graduating seniors will re ceive Faculty Achievement awards as outstanding students in the School of Arts and Sciences, said Walter H. Delaplane, dean of arts and sciences. The awards will be presented at the All-College Honors convocation in the new Physical Education building May 12. Recipients are Guy W. Dawson, Elmer Joe Hickman, Robert W. Palmer, Richard N. Porter, and Robert B. Willman. All of the winners are prominent in student activities, Delaplane said. Faculty awards ai’e voted in recognition of scholastic attain ment, leadership, organizational ability, and performance of extra curricular activities, Delaplane said. Whitney Winner Of Scholarship Herbert W. Whitney has been named winner of the $500 scholar ship given by the Square D com pany said F. H. Roby, vice presi dent of the company. Whitney is a sophomore in In-* dustrial engineering at A&M. Selection of the winner is based on scholastic attainment and leadership. Whitney is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Whitney of Big Spring. HUNTING DEER AT 101 WHITTEMORE, Mich.—(A 1 )—In 1865, when the Civil War ended, Pete Cameron shot his first deer. Now, 89 years later, Cameron is 101 and still hunting. Shepardson Heads Chicago Meeting C. N. Shepardson, Dean of Agri culture, is in Chicago to attend three meetings this week. He left Tuesday morning. He attended a meeting Wednes day of the Land Grant College as sociation’s committee on vocational agriculture teacher training. Friday and Saturday, he will preside at a meeting and Sunday he will attend the Sears Roibuc^ scholarship meeting.