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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Number 225: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1954
Price 5 Ceuta
Board Approves
Multi-Million
Building Program
A&M’s building program moved
ahead Saturday with the board of
directors approval of new buildings,
repairs, renovations and additions.
Largest single expenditure will
he $1,040,080 for the new veteri
nary science group. This will in
clude a veterinary science building,
a small animal building, and a
large animal shelter. Tihe build
ings will be built across the tracks,
near the present veterinary hospi
tal.
Present plans call for the civil
engineering department to move to
the pi - esent veterinary science
building. Other classes will use
the present civil engineering build
ing.
Highway Center
Another new building for the
campus will be the Highway re
search center, which will cost $178,-
812. It will house the highway re
search organization headed by
Gibb Gilchrist and Thomas Mac
Donald.
A warehouse for the Fireman
Training school will be built on the
campus. It will cost $20,000.
Scheduled repairs and renovation
for Sbisa dining hall will cost
$100,000. Included are plans for
a new floor, acoustical ceiling, new
dishwashing rooms, ventilation,
lighting, toilet facilities, and gen
eral redecoration.
The woi'k on Sbisa will be done in
two summers, with the work on
floors, toilet facilities and dish
washing rooms to be done first.
The board authorized the Ex-
jhange store to use $50,000 of its
profits in remodeling and renova
tion. The money will be used to
modernize the store and to improve
storage facilities.
The A&M Press was authorized
to finance a new building by rev
enue bonds. The building, which
will cost $222,000, will be an in
dustrial-type building.
New PE Building
An addition to the new physical
education building, now the G.
Rollie White coliseum, will house
the required physical education
program. The three-story building
will cost $629,035, and will be built
adjoining the south wall of the coli
seum.
It will contain offices, lockers,
a gymnasium, and intramural
headquarters. The new building
will be cheaper than the cost of
Barbecue Honors
Senior Graduates
The Former Students association
Will give a barbecue supper
Wednesday on the lawn of the sys
tem administration building for
tbe class of 1954.
It will be informal and is re
quested that all students come
stag, said J. B. (Dick) Hervey,
secretary of the association.
The supper is to be an unofficial
farewell from the campus and a
welcome into the Former Students
association, he said.
remodeling DeWare field house,
said T. R. Spence, system manager
of physical plants.
Additional work and equipment
for the White coliseum will cost
$21,018.43, bringing the total cost
of the building to $1,031,018.43.
An addition will also be built on
the swine feeding plant at a cost
of $7,500.
Alloted for improvements on the
Academic building parking lot was
$22,770.
Dormitory Repainting
The board approved waterproof
ing and repainting for some cam
pus buildings and dormitories this
summer.
The exterior of the Military Sci
ence building, Agronomy building,
Animal Industries building and Biz-
zell hall will be waterproofed.
The exterior wood trim of Leg
gett, Hart, Walton, Law and Pur-
year halls will be painted.
Scheduled for interior painting
are Milner, Leggett, Mitchell, Law
and Puryear halls.
The board also cancelled $20,-
462.54 of unused building appro
priations.
DANCE QUEEN for the annual Cattleman’s ball Saturday,
was Nancy Alexander from Lockhart. She was escorted by
R. A. Blackwell.
Young Demo
Hits System
Club
Snag
The organizational meeting of
the A&M College Young Democrat
ic club was called off Thursday by
President David H. Morgan sev
eral hour’s before the meeting was
scheduled to begin in the MSC
senate chamber.
A System ruling which states,
“No property under the control of
the Te^cas Agricultural and Me
chanical College system will be
used for political campaign meet
ings or speeches or in the further
ance of . any political campaign nor
used in any way for any political
office,” establishes college policy
in regard to meetings of such
groups, Morgan said.
John Samuels, club organizer,
said he was totally unaware of
any System prohibitions concern
ing political discussions, but that
a careful check of college regula
tions did not reveal a ruling as
such.
However, the organization did
meet Thursday night and estab
lished the Brazos County Young
Democratic club rather than the
A&M College club, and is chartered,
Samuels said.
Any resident of Brazos county
or any faculty member or student
may belong, he said, and eight del
egates will be sent to the state
convention in San Antonio on May
8 and 9.
It would be much preferred if
students only were participating,
Samuels said. A county organiza
tion takes it out of the young peo
ple’s hands.
“I want to emphasize that I am
disturbed over such a law which
prohibits student participation in
political discussions. Other state
institutions have such political oi’-
ganizations quite active on their
campuses,” he said.
Plans for obtaining a college
charter depend on discussing Sys
tem regulations with Chancellor
M. T. Harrington in regard to get
ting a change through the Board
of Directors.
Samuels said its really irrelevant
whether the organization is Demo
cratic or Republican.
“I think all students should be
given the opportunity for political
thinking so that the students can
begin to formulate their own polit
ical ideas,” he said.
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THE WINNERS—C. C. (Chuck) Neighbors, president of
the Arts and Sciences council, congratulates the winners of
the council’s annual Faculty Achievement awards. The
professors are (left to right) Dr. George Potter, of the
biology department; T. W. Leland, head of the business ad
ministration department; and Dr. S. S. Morgan, head of
the English department.
Student Election
Set For May 12
The election for next years
election commission will be held in
the Memorial Student Center from
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. May 12.
There will be five members from
each class on the commission and
the Student Senate will appoint
five additional members. Students
eligible to vote are those in the
classes of ’55, ’56 and ’57.
Filing for the election commis
sion will close at 5 p. m. Wednes
day.
Candidates who have filed for
the senior election commission are
James Caffey, Val Canon, A. T.
Green, E. P. (Pete) Goodwin, Allen
Heimer, Jerry Johnson, Dave Lane,
Hugh Lanktree, Dick McCasland,
Jimmy May, C. N. Powell, Keith
Savage, Phil Speairs, Harry Tilley.
Those seeking junior posts are
Bob Bacher, Jan Broderick Glenn
Buell, Bob Francis, Vernon Henry,
Larry Kennedy, David Parnell,
Buddy Patterson, Jerry Schnepp, T.
W. Short and Frank Westmore
land.
The only freshmen who have
entered the race are Tedd Lewis
and Dan Winship.
Panel To Discuss
ROTC Affairs
The Army Advisory Panel oh
ROTC Affairs will meet in Wash
ington May 20—21 to “discuss pro
blems and recommend solutions”
on current ROTC affairs.
President David H. Morgan has
been invited to participate, but he
will be unable' to attend because
May 20 and 21 are the dates of
commence ment and his inaugura
tion.
The tentative agenda for the
meeting include discussion on se
lection for commissioning, the
branch general plan, ROTC de
ferment policies, reserve and active
duty requirements, and requests
from classes and types of schools
for special consideration.
Educators and militai-y personnel
will be on the panels.
Ring Dance
Ticket Sales
Start Today
Tickets for the Senior Ring
dance and banquet went on
sale today.
Persons who will be allowed
to purchase tickets have been
divided into the following groups:
Students in the class of 1954 who
will be graduated in May.
Students who will be graduated
after completion of summer school.
Students who will be graduated
in January.
Tickets to the dance will cost
$7 and banquet tickets will be
$1.50 each. Beginning Monday, a
representative of the company
which will take the ring pictures
will be in Goodwin hall selling
tickets until Saturday noon. Pic
tures will cost $1.00 each.
Seniors are urged to purchase
their tickets as soon as possible
from either student activities or
their particular ticket representa
tive,” said Wayne Dean, ticket
chairman.
New area ticket representatives
are Jim Weatherby, Dorm 12,
Room 123; and Marvin Ford, Dorm
9, room 115. Non-military seniors
may purchase their tickets from
Joe West, Dorm 2, room 328.
Seniors in the freshman area can
get tickets from Phillip Orr, Dorm
14, Room 432.
Student activities office in Good
win hall will also have tickets.
Directors ‘Will Study’
Consolidation Proposal
Decision Possible
At July Meeting
The A&M system board of directors “has received and
will study” the proposed Articles of the Cadet Corps, includ
ing the provision for having freshmen in all military units.
The board may make a decision on the Articles at their
July meeting, but Chancellor M. T. Harrington said he didn’t
know definitely whether or not it would be ready then.
“I’m sure they will want to study it thoroughly,” he said.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, said the military .would
plan the organization of the corps for next year on the basis
of the exisiting Articles.
“If the board approves consolidation at the July meeting,
we’ll just expand what we already have,” he said.
Davis said cadet officer ap'-f
pointments for next year
would be announced “some
time after summer camp”. He
said recommendations and a
tentative slate of officers would be
ready before the end of the school
term.
A change being considered now
for next year’s corps organization
would give the corps two wings
and two regiments, instead of the
present organization of one wing,
one regiment ; 'and one composite
regiment.
There would be a wing and a
regiment in each of the two dorm
itory areas.
The provision in the proposed
Articles pertaining to freshman
housing reads “Each unit of com
pany (squadron) level will be com
posed of cadets from all classes
and will be housed together.”
Another major change in the new
articles eliminates the' dean of men
in the chain of command and puts
the commandant directly under the
president.
Morgan announced in a faculty
meeting in February that he would
ask the board to raise the com
mandant to dean level.
These are the only two provis
ions in the Articles that require
board approval.
The board of directors met here
in executive session Friday. The
proposed articles were presented to
them then.
After this meeting the “has re
ceived and will study” announce
ment was made.
Morgan and Harrington said
they were not free to release what
was said in the executive sessions.
Executive sessions and committee
meetings of the board are c losed.
Members of the board present
were G. Rollie White, chairman, J.
W. Witherspoon, H. L. Winfield, J.
Harold Dunn and A. E. Cudlipp. E.
W. Harrison and Jack Finney at
tended the Friday session but had
to leave early Saturday.
PE Building
To Be Named
For White
A&M’s new physical edu
cation building will be named
the G. Rollie White Coliseum,
in honor of the chairman of
the system board of directors.
The board passed the reso
lution Saturday.
White has been president of
the board for the last 10 years,
and a member of it for the last
29 years.
A plaque honoring White
will be put on the building as
a part of the formal dedication
ceremonies.
Charity Day
Being Held
By Stations
Sixteen service stations will
take part in giving 10 per
cent of their total sales today
for charity.
These stations, members of
the Brazos Valley Service Station
association, will be assisted by local
service groups.
The Kiwanis club. Lions club
and Mothers and Dads club, Col
lege Station; and the Lions club,
Kiwanis club and Jaycees, Bryan,
will participate.
The men from the service groups
will work in two hour shifts from
7 a. m. to 7 p. m.
The customer is asked to in
dicate the service club which he
wants his purchase to go to, said
J. R. Bachus, president of the
association.
Stations in College Station which
will give 10 per cent include Mc
Call, Bravenec, Cooly, Mousner
and Bachus.
In Bryan the following stations
will give to charity drive: Moss,
Sample, Rahnert, Ames, Patranella,
Gilkey, Courtney, Glockzen and
Bond, Beal, Tremont and Sikorski.
This type of program is planned
for four times a year, Bachus said.
Athletic Council
Chairman Named
False Alarm Caused
By Overheated Pan
An overheated pan on a cook-
stove was responsible for a run
of the College Station Fire de
partment Monday.
News of the World
HANOI, Indochina—The Communist-led Vietminh rush
ed up fresh troops in long columns of trucks last night to the
French fortress of Dien Bien Phu after calling off its third
heavy and sustained assault on the hedghog defenses. Hun
dreds of Russian-made Molotov trucks, chauffeured by Chi
nese, were spotted moving into the encircling hills, their head
lights gleaming.
WASHINGTON—Army proposal that the Mc-
Carthy-Pentagon hearing be limited to testimony by
Secretary Stevens and Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) wap
taken under “serious consideration” last night in a
move to bring the hearings to an end. The speed-up
effort was decided on at a closed-door meeting of the
Senate Investigation subcommittee after Stevens de
nied in his eighth day of televised public testimony
that he was “covering up anybody.”
’At "A ‘A’
WASHINGTON—Presidents Robert Six of Continental
and Robert Smith of Pioneer Airlines asked a civil aeronaut
ics board examiner yesterday to approve plans for a merger
of the two carriers.
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WASHINGTON — Sen. H. Alexander Smith
(R-NJ) today opened Senate debate on proposed re
visions of the Taft-Hartley law with a plea for the
government to with draw from “control of inter
ference” with labor-management disputes.
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AUSTIN—The State Board of Education decided today
it wants the Legislature “as soon as practicable” to set a
future course for junior colleges in Texas. Without dissent,
it adopted a committee report suggesting the defining of a
public junior college, determining of its functions and declar
ation of state policy.
The board of directors named
Chris H. Groneman new head of
the athletic council for 1954-55 at
their meeting Saturday.
Groneman is head of the indus
trial education department.
Other members of the council,
all A&M faculty members, are J.
J. Woolket, head of the modern
languages department; Phillip P.
Goode of the business administra
tion department; Dr. J. C. Miller,
head of the animal husbandry de
partment and Fred J. Benson of
the civil engineering department.
The new council is in keeping
with the board’s ruling to exclude
students and former students from
the athletic councils of the system’s
colleges. All athletic councils in
the A&M system will be composed
of five faculty members with one
acting as chairman.
The two students who were on
Bernard Elected
CCTA President
C. H. Bernard of the physics de
partment is the new president of
the College Classroom Teachers as
sociation.
Other new officers are John
Merkle, biology, vice president; and
Morris N. Abrams, agricultural
education, secretary-treasurer.
They were elected Thursday.
The local chapter of the CCTA
also agreed to recommend to the
state organization that the state
CCTA office, with its executive
secretary, be continued, even
though it would require increasing
dues to as high as eight dollars.
The CCTA had been considering
abolishing the state office.
Nominating committee for the
new officers was C. W. Crawford,
R. W. Steen and Charles LaMotte,
chairman.
Aggieland Editors
Confer in Dallas
B. C. (Dutch) Dutcher and Allan
(Bootsie) Hohlt, co-editors of the
Aggieland, are in Dallas conferring
with Tom Murray, art director of
Taylor Publishing Co.
The purpose of the trip is to
consult with the publisher and to
make final decisions concerning the
cover of the yearbook, said Carl
Jobe, assistant manager of stu
dent publications.
They will also straighten out dif
ficulties caused by failure of some
executive officers and first ser
geants to have pictures made, he
said.
the old council were elected last
spring. They are Richard (Red)
Harris and Bill Brucks. Dean of
Men W. L. Penberthy was chairman
of the old council.
Goode said, “It’s all pretty new
to me, but I’m a great believer in
athletics as part of any collegiate
program. Athletes learn much in
competition. When I have the
chance, I’m out at the ball park
or the stadium. I don’t anticipate
as mucli fireworks next year as
we had this year. I’m looking for
ward to this position.”
When asked to comment, Benson
said, “I think it is definitely ben
eficial for a student to participate
in collegiate athletics. I played
basketball and baseball in college
and am a real fan of those two
sports. It came as a real surprise
to me when I was asked to serve on
the council.”
Groneman, Miller and Woolket
were not available for comment.
Boyer Announces
Summer Housing
Dormitories 14, 15, 16 and Biz-
zell will be used for housing sum
mer school students.
Students living in those dormi
tories may reserve the rooms they
now occupy from 8 a.m. Monday
until 5 p. m. May 12th.
Other students may register for
rooms from 8 a. m. May 13 until
noon May 29.
All dormitory students may pay
fees beginning May 10.
Day students, including those
living in college apartments, may
pay their fees early.
Weather Today
CLEAR and WARM
Clear to partly cloudy and warm
er with expected high of 63. No
more extreme, unseasonably low
temperatures expected. Low this
morning 42.