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Number 226: Volume 53
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1954
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GOING DOWN—A familiar sight for the past 67 years on the A&M campus is now being
torn down. The building was built as a result of poor management in the mess hall.
;ie Follies
Ticket Sales
Now Underway
Tickets for the Aggie Fol
lies are on sale in Student Ac
tivities office on the second
floor of Goodwin hall.
They will also be sold at the
floor Friday and Saturday.
The Follies is an annual talent
*how presented the Friday and
Saturday night before Mothers
Day. Show time will be 7:30 both
night.
Tickets are 75 cents each for
the Friday show and $1 for the
Saturday show.
The proceeds from the Follies
are used for scholarships and out
standing professor awards.
The Aggieland orchestra and the
Singing Cadets will open the pro
gram. Jimmy Harrison will play
his guitar and “The Great Jerry”
Schnepp will present his magic act.
The Aggie Ramblers western band
and the Fish Di’ill Team will round
out the first half of the show.
“A Night in the Inn,” a one act
play by Lord Dunsany, will be pre
sented by the Aggie Players. Rod
ney Pirtle will play his ukulele.
Bud (Dean H. W.) Barlow’s Brazos
Bottom Boogie Busters will close
The program.
David Mitchell will provide in
termission organ music. Don
friend will be the master of cere
monies.
Hollie Bricsoe is chairman of
the Follies committee. Bill Young,
Jim Milligan, Phil Mockford are
on the committee. Barlow and C.
K. Esten, director of the Aggie
Players, are serving as advisors.
Members of the stagecraft class
are handling the stage manage
ment.
Need Employes
A&M May Supply
Pakistan With Aid
A&M will supply technical aid
for the new nation of Pakistan if
enough A&M employes with “mis
sionary spirit” can be found.
“The only approach in that coun
try is in long-range education,”
said D. W. Williams, vice chancel
lor for agriculture, “but those who
go will have to have a missionary
spirit.”
Williams, who handles foreign
aid for the A&M system, spoke to
the system board of directors Sat
urday on his recent trip to Pakis
tan.
“That is an area in which our
government needs friends,” he said.
Pakistan is 18 miles from Russia.
The proposed aid program would
require eight specialists — one in
agriculture, one in veterinary medi
cine, two in engineering, and two
in teacher training. They would
probably stay a year.
Williams said the system’s policy
on aid to other countries was to
wait for the other country to ask
for aid.
“We won’t go in unless they ap
proach us and say they need help,”
he said.
Almost all of the world’s areas
of conflict, problems and unrest
are between the two 30 degree par
allels, Williams said.
“Texas is a leader to these coun
tries because Texas is the only
state that is largely in that area,”
Williams said.
He outlined the United States’
aid to these countries as having
five parts:
1. Training men for the foreign
service in agriculture. He said
A&M did not do much of this type
work, leaving it to the Eastern
schools. j
2. Loaning of technical people.
3. Teaching students who come
here to attend college regularly.
4. Receiving visitors from other
countries. “They come constant-
ly,” Williams said. “We had 10,550
trainee days in the system last
year.”
5. Encouraging lang-grant col
leges to take over technical jobs.
“Our best area for this is Latin
America and Mexico,” he said.
Being Razed
After 67 Years
Pfeuffer hall is going back to
dust. The old building that was
built as a result of poor manage-
roent i n the college mess hall has
served A&M 67 years.
Now, it is being razed.
The building is named after
George Pfeuffer, president of the
A&M board of trustees, 1885-86,
and a merchant in New Braunfels
at that time. Pfeuffer was dis
satisfied with losses in the mess
hall, so he requested permission
to do some of the buying for them.
This permission was granted by
the board, and in that year the
mess hall made a profit of $10,000.
This money was used to erect the
dorm that has borne his name since
1887.
“It’s a pity that some of these
bricks aren’t used to erect a monu
ment for George Pfeuffer,” said
D. B. Gofer, college archivist.
“The story of Pfeuffer hall was
given me by the late Walter
Wipprecht, who taught chemistry
and physics here for two years
and who was business manager of
A&M from 1914 to 1937,”
For Helping Reds
WASHINGTON—UP)—Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson was
convicted Tuesday and sentenced to ten years’ hard labor on
charges of informing on his comrades in a Korean prisoner-
of-war camps and currying favor with his Red Chinese cap-
tors.
Both the conviction and the prison sentence are subject
to automatic consideration by an Army review board, which
may act in about a month.
The unprecedented court-martial of the 23-year-old farm
boy from Cracker’s Neck, Va., ended late in the afternoon of
its twelfth day. Dickenson was tried on charges of collabor
ating with the Chinese Communists and informing the Reds
■♦■about the escape plans of a
buddy, former Pfc. Edward M.
Gaither of Philadelphia. He
was convicted on both counts
Junior Class Sells
318 A&M Pennants
The junior class sold 318 class
pennants ranging from the class of
’27 to the class of ’57, said Wallace
Eversberg, chairman of the pen
nant selling committee.
The pennants were sold for $3.50
each. About $150 was made from
the sales.
“Val Canon did most of the
work and should be given most of
the credit for the sales being suc
cessful,” Eversberg said.
The pennants will be sold again
next fall, he said.
FSA To Give
Barbecue
For Seniors
The class of ’54 will get an
unofficial farewell from the
campus and a welcome into the
Former Student association to
night.
The occasion is a barbecue
supper on the lawn of the
system administration build
ing, to be given by the FSA at
7 p. m.
The supper will be informal
and all seniors are requested
to come stag, said J. B. (Dick)
Hervey, FSA secretary.
Nixon Will Take
Ring Dance Photos
Senior Ring dance pictures will
be taken this year by Paul Nixon
of Fort Worth, said Gilbert Stribbl-
ing, senior class social secretary.
The pictures will be the heavier
mat type, rather than the glossy
type which has been used in the
past, he said.
Weather Today
Portable Unit
Records Weather
A portable weather recording
unit at Bryan air force base is
currently making a study of upper
air data in the College Station-
Bryan vicinity.
“Information about wind speed,
temperature, pressure and humidity
in the upper air is recorded through
the use of balloons,” said Capt.
Godson of the weather station at
BAFB. The balloons used in re
cording this data are approximately
eight feet in diameter with a metal
box containing the recording in
struments attached.
The unit is the only one in this
area making such a study. There
are other units of this type at
San Antonio and Lake Charles,
Godson said.
STILL CLEAR
Continued clear today and to
night. High temperature yester
day 71. Low this morning 48.
Estes Elected
Commentator Head
Jerry Estes, junior journalism
major from Wichita Falls, was
elected editor of The Commentator
for 1955 Monday.
He was elected by the Arts and
Science Council.
Bob Hendry, present editor of
The Commentator, said Estes has
worked hard with him in all phases
of the magazine publication this
year. Estes had two years experi
ence with The Battalion before go
ing to work for The Commentator.
News of the World
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—Sen. John J. Sparkman started off
with a majority over three opponents in first returns from
yesterday’s (Tuesday) Alabama Democratic senatorial pri
mary, one of five state primaries held over the nation. The
others were in Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and New Mexico. In
the only other contest of national interest—in Ohio—veteran
Rep. George H. Bender went into a 3,000 vote lead over Ohio
House Speaker William Saxbe for the Republican senatorial
nomination for the remaining two years of the term of the
late Sen. Robert A. Taft.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The U. N. Security
council batted down Russian and Arab objections
yesterday and voted to have a general debate on the
tense border problems between Israel and Jordan.
The balloting came after the council had wrangled
for six meetings over a month’s time on how to
tackle opposing Israeli and Jordanian claims.
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WASHINGTON — An alleged “secret and confidential”
letter from J. Edgar Hoover, warning of a highly dangerous
security situation at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., touched off a new
uproar in the McCarthy-Pentagon hearings yesterday. The
disput arose after the army, and the Democrats on the Sen
ate investigations subcommittee, blocked a Republic a drive
to cut the elevised hearings short and maybe wind them up
this week with Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) as the final witness.
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WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dulles re
turned from Europe last night to report to President
Eisenhower and congressional leaders on his so-far-
unsuccessful drive to get united action to stem com
munism in Southeast Asia. Back from the Asiatic
peace talks at Geneva, Switzerland, Dulles told news
men the conferences with the Reds “are developing
just about as expected.”
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WASHINGTON—The Republican leader in the Senate,
Sen. Knowland of California, said yesterday he favored
amending the Taft-Hartley labor law to give states more
power to control labor-management relations. Knowland
announced he would support a controversial state’s right
amendment sponsored by Sen. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and that
he was “inclined to believe” it would be adopted by t h e
Senate.
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Flanders (R-Vt.) report
ed that President Eisenhower plans further diplo
matic moves in the Indochinese crisis and that these
negotiations will determine whether any military
action is taken. The President, Flanders told news
men, does not favor American military operations
in Indochina unless this country “has the support of
the people of that region.”
Beaumont Mothers
Give Dish To MSC
A copper chafing dish has been
given to the Memorial Student Cen
ter by the Beaumont A&M Mothers
club.
The two and one-half gallon dish
has a bi-metal finish consisting of
a copper body and 22 inch stainless
steel inserts. It is now on order
and should be available for display
within two weeks.
The dish will be added to the
MSC silver service set,. valued at
more than $5,000.
“It is what I consider the most
complete set owned by any school
in the South,” said J. Wayne
Stark, MSC director.
This service is available for use
by student clubs and former stu
dent conventions and banquets.
—the first tome a war prison
er had ever been so tried and con
victed.
Hollow-eyed and haggard, Dick
enson stared gloomily at the ma
roon-carpeted floor as the verdict
was returned after ten and a half
hours of deliberation by eight high-
ranking Army officers. The sol
dier’s blond bride of four months,
Kate, fought down tears as she
chewed nervously at her finger
nails.
Dickenson himself said nothing
after the verdict was rendered but
his attorney, Guy Emery, a re
tired West Point colonel, said he
thought the court’s decision was “a
travesty” and that “the deck had
been stacked.”
Emery and Dickenson “took it
pretty hard.”
Dickenson is one of twenty-three
American prisoners of war who
refused repatriation and chose to
stay with the Reds after the Ko
rean armistice. But he and one
other, Claude Batchelor of Kermit,
Texas, later changed their minds
and chose to return to this country.
The trial of Dickenson had been
widely regarded as a test, and his
conviction might establish a prece
dent for bringing collaboration
charges against other former pris
oners against whom the Army has
gathered somewhat similar infor
mation.
In a related development, the
Air Force Tuesday cleared sixty-
nine officers and airmen of wrong
doing while they were prisoners
of war, and said none of the eighty-
three whose cases were considered
by a board of five generals would
be required to Tace a court-martial.
The fourteen not completely clear
ed were ordered to show cause
why they should be permitted to
remain in the service.
Nine of the fourteen and twenty-
seven of the sixty-nine who were
cleared allegedly made false germ
warfare confessions while they
were prisoners. The exact nature
of the other charges against the
men was not disclosed.
Tutt Elected Editor
Of Agriculturist
Elect Kinslow
New President
Jon Kinslow will be presi
dent of the Journalism Club
next year.
Officers were elected at the
regular meeting last night.
Others elected were Ralph Cole,
vice president; Don Shepard, sec
retary; Jim Collins, treasurer;
Jerry Wizig, program chairman;
and Ronnie Greathouse, reporter.
John Nelms and Jim Collins were
chosen co-editors for the first edi
tion of the A&M Journalist, depart
ment newspaper, next year.
D. D. Burchard, head of the
journalism department, invited all
journalism club members to his
home for a “rice supper” Tuesday
night. Those planning to attend
are to sign up in the journalism
building.
The club also planned their an
nual function for Thursday night.
It will be held at Kiwanis park at
7:30 p.m.
C. C. “Chuck” Neighbors, retir
ing president, presided over the
meeting.
Hickman Enters
Teaching Contest
Roy D. Hickman, senior agricul
tural education student from Rising
Star, will represent A&M in the
“Mister and Miss Teacher of To
morrow” contest at East Texas
State Teacher college. May 3 to 7.
Requirements set up by the
Teacher of Tommorrow contest
committee were that the candidate
must have demonstrated leader
ship and scholastic abilities in col
lege. Also, he must state why he
chose the teaching profession.
Hickman’s qualifications included
distinguished student in 1950-53,
member of Alpha Zeta fraternity,
cadet Lt. Col., distinguished mili
tary student, outstanding cadet in
battery at ROTC summer camp,
and first alternate for the Dan-
forth Foundation award.
J. R. Jackson, Agricultural Edu
cation professor, will go with Hick
man to East Texas State as faculty
sponsor.
DR. IDE P. TROTTER,
dean of the graduate school,
at A&M, has been named a
member of the evaluation
team appointed by the Tex
as Education Agency to
evaluate the graduate pro
gram in teacher education
at the East Texas Baptist
College at Marshall, May
3-5.
Corps To Honor
Eight Next Sunday
The corps of cadets will honor
eight persons Sunday with the first
annual service awards of the corps.
The eight persons, chosen by a
representitive group of cadets, will
be either college employes or
citizens of Texas.
The award, to be presented at
the Mothers Day review, will be
an engraved scroll.
The award will be made annually
from now on, but the number of
persons receiving it each year will
F. E. (Sonny) Tutt has been
elected to be next year’s editor of
the Agriculturist.
Tutt is a junior animal hus
bandry major from Raton.
He was chosen during a special I vary from five to seven, said Fred
meeting of the Agriculture council. I Mitchell, corps commander.
Filings Close Here
For Democratic Race
All Seniors Should
Register With FSA
All graduating seniors should
register with the Former Students
association before leaving A&M.
The office of student activities
said seniors should leave their
name and address with the place
ment office, pay the Fiscal office,
check with the registrar’s office
and leave name and address so the
Aggieland ’54 can be sent out. All
this should be done before grad
uation.
Senior favors may be purchased
from student activities office.
Filing for the July 24, Demo
cratic primary has closed.
Candidates who have filed in
Brazos county are Olin E. Teague,
unopposed in the race for sixth
district representative to congress;
Joseph W. Hale, for judge of Court
of Civil appeals of the tenth
supreme judicial district; John M.
Barron, for county attorney; and
Raymond Nolan and Glen A.
(Buddy) Williams for county com
missioner of precinct 1.
John R. Grace, W. C. (Bill)
Davis, W. T. McDonald, and Davis
Grant have filed for district judge
of the 85th judicial district.
A. S. Ware, William David Bunt
ing, A. B. Syptak, J. W. Hamilton
and Norton R. Burkhalter have
filed for county school superin-
tendant.
F. T. Cole, B. V. (Bill) Elkins
and Clifton C. Carter have filed
for United States marshall for the
southern district of Texas.
Norman F. Rode and F. C. Bolton
have filed for precinct three chair
man. Rode, up for re-election, is
the only contested precinct chair
man in the county.
John F. Royder has filed for
justice of the peace for precinct
seven and Joe Norwood for con
stable of precinct seven.
The winners in the July 24 pri
mary will run in the general
elections November 4, if fees are
paid and they do not withdraw.
There have been no filings for
the Republican primary, according
to Bill Fitch, Republican chairman
of College Station.