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' Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 229: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1954 Price 5 Cents Three Charged for Unauthorized Acts Bowl Profits Division Recommended bv SLC The Student Life committee last night recommended that the profits from the Twelfth Man bowl be di vided between the student aid fund and the Twelfth Man scholarship fund. The recommended division would give the first $1,000 profits to the student aid fund, with the remain der to go to the scholarship fund. Last year, the Twelfth Man bowl, a football game between the army and air force ROTC, earned $1,730. The SLC also voted to transfer Clinic Treats More Than 100 Cripple Cases More than 100 cases were diagnosed and treated Mon day at the ninth annual Crip pled Children’s clinic, accord ing to Dr. Luther G. Jones, director of the Brazos County Crip pled Children’s association. Dr. Jones termed 20 cases “re habilitation” and 94 “hospital” cases. Seven people came from Madison county, two from Robert son county, and four from Wash ington county. The rest were from Brazos county. Two mild cases and three pro nounced cases of cerebrial palsy were diagnosed at the clinic. Also two mongoloid (mental) cases were discovered. “The clinic was a great success Rnd a great many families have planned the progress for the rehab ilitation of their crippled children as the results,” said Dr. Jones. Present at the clinic were Dr. W. H. Ainsworth, orthopediatrician from Houston; R. W. Youngblood, orthopedic surgeon from Houston; Dr. Dan R. Bussey, pediatrician from Galveston; Dr. Herbert E. Hipps, bone specialist from Waco; Di\ J. E. Marsh of the college hos pital; Di\ J. E. Marsh Jr., of the Bryan clinic; Dr. Arthur M. James, orthopedic surgeon from Galveston; Dr. Steve Lewis, plastic surgeon from Hous ton; Dif Joseph Woodard, ortho pedic surgeon from Austin, and Dr. Augustin Palacios, neuro psy chiatric from Houston. $1,131 from the student aid fund to the Twelfth Man scholarship fund now, to bring next year’s scholarship up to $1,600. It is a four-year scholarship. Carroll Phillips, chairman of the Twelfth Man scholarship commit tee, said they had earned $469 this year by fund raising drives. The SLC also approved a senior class recommendation requesting that the ring clerk be instructed not to issue senior rings until “two weeks before a student has com pleted six semesters in college, or two semesters before the end of the student’s fourth year.” “This recommendation was drawn up because non-reg juniors are wearing the senior ring, and corps juniors can’t,” said Bill Reed of the student senate. “We want to standardize the wearing of the ring.” The SLC added to the proposal the recommendation that two sum mer terms be considered as one regular semester. The recommen dation will be forwarded to the ring committee. A new constitution for the SLC was approved by the group. The new constitution, according to SLC Chairman Joe Sorrels, eli minates some of the nuclear word ing in the old one. There are no major changes, except for the ad dition of a new standing commit tee for yell leaders. The formation of a standing committee for publi cations, recommended by the SLC in February, is now being consid ered by a committee of the Aca demic council. The Academic council’s commit tee will report “probably nex1 year,” Sorrels said. A committee of the SLC assign ed to study the student senate’s proposal to join the United States National Student association rec ommended that the matter be left until next year. The recommen dation was accepted. Another committee recommenda tion on a new method of selecting Who’s Who candidates was accept ed and adopted by the SLC. The new method is essentially the same as the old. “We didn’t change it a whole lot, because we didn’t think it needed changing,” said Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, chairman of the committee. C. G. (Spike) White, director of student activities, presented the of fice of student activities budget for next year, which was accepted by the committee. The budget estimates income and expenditures at $5,760 each. The SLC also approved the col lege calendar for next year and authorized the office of student ac tivities to extend contracts for an unlimited period. At the end of the meeting, Sor rels thanked the membei’s of the group for their help during the yeai*. He was given a rising vote of appreciation. Military Panel Sets Hearing By HARRI BAKER Battalion Co-Editor Three corps seniors will be tried by a military panel this afternoon on charges of “unauthorized acts of initiation at an informal party off the campus”. The men, Dale Dowell, Bruce Sterzing and Dennis Cole, are charged with using a board (an instrument of hazing) on juniors at a Ross Volunteer party Thursday night. Dowell is a cadet captain, commanding officer of B field artillery. Sterzing is a cadet lieutenant colonel, commanding officer of the third battalion of the first regiment. Cole is a cadet first lieutenant, executive officer of B armor. An inspection of RV juniors yesterday revealed that “seven or eight” of them had marks from a board on their bodies, Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, said last night. The Ross Volunteers is+ A&M’s honor company. BIG AND LITTLE—Perhaps George Albritton, (left) is thinking about the day he will be an Aggie like his brother, Jake (right). George is wearing a uniform made by his mother. Jake is a senior from Houston. Smith To Speak For Honors Day $800,000 Goal AS Profs To Go To Bryan AFB Most of A&M’s air science in structors will go to camp at Bryan air force base this summer. Those attending Bryan will be Maj. O. H. Franks, training officer; Maj. W. F. Burt, adjutant; Capt. C. B. Doleac, Maj. J. S. McCan- non, M/Sgt. C. L. Thompson, T/Sgt. T. M. Buford and T/Sgt. C. E. Perdue. Others that will attend different bases are Capt. Robert P. Cowart, Gary AFB; M/Sgt. T. H. Williams, Connally AFB; M/Sgt. J. P. Col lins, Ellington AFB. Dr. T. V. Smith will be the prin ciple speaker for the All College Honors day program Wednesday, according to Dr. G. W. Schlessel man, chairman of the honors day committee. Smith is an internationally known philosophy professor, and a graduate of the University of Tex as. He received his Ph D degree from the University of Chicago. Smith is being brought to the campus by the local chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, a national schol astic honor society. This year only the faculty achievment awards are to be pre sented in order that the program may be shortened, said Schlessel- man. The several hundred individ ual awards, usually handed out sep arately at the program, have al ready been given during the course of the school year. Dr. David H. Morgan, president of the college, will preside over the ceremony in the G. Rollie White coliseum. Civilian Students To Discuss Council Students interested in forming a Civilian council may attend a meet ing at 5 p. m. today in room 301 of Goodwin hall. Several meetings have already been held and the plan will be pre sented today in written form for discussion and approval, said Ben nie Zinn, assistant dean of men. USA Fund Drive To Close Friday By GEORGE MANITZAS Battalion City Editor Friday will mark the closing day for the $800,000 goal drive for the Sam Houston Area council. Boy Scouts of America, to better the facilities, enlarge the camps and repair the camping grounds. Camp Strake, for instance, can not accommodate all the boys who want to attend. Many times in 1953 the camp accommodated 400 boys, while being designed to take care of 300. In 1953, 5,476 scouts spent at least a week at camp showing that there was an increase of 36 percent over the previous three years. In Brazos county, there are 10 cub packs, 21 troops and four ex plorer units with a total of 1,165 scouts. • The Boy Scout Building Fund campaign committee met in the Memorial Student Center yester day. The main speaker, Sid Loveless, chairman of the committee, said, The citizens of College Station have served our boys well. “We are a part of the Sam Houston Area Scout council and want our boys to receive the bene fit of the additional scouting and camping facilities this money will provide.” “I earnestly ask your help and the help of all the people of the community to provide greater op portunity for our boys,” he said. “We’ll go after big gifts first, but we want every citizen of Col lege Station to have a share in this wonderful program. Any gift will be appreciated and well used,” Loveless said. ■^The number scouts now register ed in the 15 county area is 33,966. J. Edgar Hoover said, “Boy Scouts cannot but be model citizens as they follow the ideals of the Scout Oath to be good citizens, good men and to fulfill their duty to God and their country.” “The Boy Scouts of America are taught respect for the laws of God and our, country and to be devoted to their fellow men,” said Hoover. The committee in College Station which will assist Loveless include H. W. Barlow, dean of engineering, Ray George and Cotton Price. Donations can be mailed to the Boy Scouts Building campaign, Sid Loveless chairman, box 87, College Station. Today’s Batt Has Page Of Pictures On page three of today’s Battalion there is a full page of pictures on the open house and Mothers Day activities. The pictures were taken by Seymour Smith and Gardner Collins, staff photographers. The page was compiled and ar ranged by Jon Kinslow, man aging editor. On page five there is a com plete list of the awards given Sunday. News of the World In First Meeting MSC Council Budget Passed The 1954-55 Memorial Student Center council last night approved next yeai-’s council and revolving fund budgets and recommended to President David H. Morgan that the administration assist in estab lishing a Great Issues speakers series. Budgets were approved for the MSC council, MSC directorate, mu sic group, house group, games group, forum group, hobby group, bowling committee, dance group, dance committee, browsing library, great issues, forum group, junto committee, hobby group (radio, au dio, camera and stamp collecting committees), craft committee, pub lic relations group and art gallery group. Tabled until the next meeting was the proposed budget for the Intercollegiate Talent show- The Great Issues speakers series was budgeted at $3,548, but the let ter to Morgan requested the college administration underwrite a maxi mum of one-half the budget figure in the event the program is not fi nancially successful. Plan of the program is to bring at least five noted speakers to the campus during the school year. The speakers selected would be immi nent authorities on political, social and economic issues. Continuation of the freshmen orientation program, held in the MSC the first Sunday before the fall semester begins, was approved. Purpose of the program is to in terest freshmen in participating in MSC activities. Council President Charles Parker appointed Doug Krueger chairman of the freshmen orientation and leadership program committees. Parker requested he be permitted to retain chairmanship of the TV fund drive committee until the drive is completed. Parker delayed naming a sum mer program committee and asked permission to appoint a committee after he could determine what stu dents would be on the campus dur ing the summer months. The April Rue Pinalle program resulted in a deficit of $8.07, but Parker said it was one of the few times Rue Pinalle had failed to show a profit. Wayne Stark, council secretary, said The Battalion had relinquished partnership in the A&M Film so ciety and had turned responsibility for the group over to the MSC council. He then requested a budg et of $200 to operate the fall film series. The budget request was approv ed and a similar budget whs ap proved for the summer film society series. Stark read a letter from Morgan expressing appreciation to the council for the highly successful MSC open house and the exhibits displayed during the Parents Day weekend. By the ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Presi- d e n t Eisenhower yesterday discussed the Indochina crisis for nearly an hour with Secre tary of State Dulles and top defense leaders amid a surge of activity suggesting an ur gent review of U. S. policy in Europe and the Far East. ★ ★ ★ HANOI, Indochina — French Union forces are strengthening their defen ses in the vital Red River Delta below Hanoi against a rebel assault that might come before the seasonal big rains hit their peak at the end of June. ★ ★ ★ SAIGON, Indochina — The French givernment instructed its top military commander in Indochina today to arrange with the Vietminh for evacu ation of French Union wound ed from Dien Bien Phu. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — Presi dent Eisenhower’s proposal to relax restrictions on U.S. atomic information and and peacetime power r e - search drew high praise yesterday as a “legislative landmark,” but some of its provisions were criticized sharply. Davis said action would be taken against the three men, but he did not know what it would be. According to College Regulations, dismissal is the pun ishment for “the use of a board or other instruments obviously de signed for hazing,” unless there are “strong mitigating circumstances.” ‘We’re It’ “After the inspection, I turned to the cadet in charge, B. K. Boyd, and said I wanted the names of the men involved,” Davis said. “Dow ell stepped up then and said ‘We’re it. Sterzing and Cole will report to you with me tomorrow.’ ” The thi’ee men went to Davis home last night and admitted to the charge. About 40 persons were at the RV party Thursday at the Brazos County A&M clubhouse. Dowell, Sterzing and Cole were the only seniors present at first. The sen iors who came later were not in volved, Dowell told Davis. Davis said he had received better cooperation on this investigation than on any investigation since he has been here. “I was disappointed when I first heard of this,” Davis said. “It knocked the props out from under me.” Bill Reed, RV commander, said “These things work out in the long run. Whatever comes of this may be a guide to the school in the fu ture.” Board Outlawed Reed said that he told the RV seniors at the first of the year not to use the board. Fred Mitchell, corps commander, said he would rather not comment on the affair because he might be on the panel which will try the men. When informed of the charges, President David H. Morgan issued the following statement: “My reactions on hearing that three students had used “The Board’ in an informal unauthorized initiation to a student organization were many and varied. There was sympathy for the parents and oth er loved ones who have been look ing forward with pride and joy to the commissioning and graduation exercises next week. There was regret that these students had not been able to resist the sadist im pulse that unfortunately is still present in a percentage of the hu man race. “In submitting to that impulse they have violated a regulation of the College and a principle of the “Articles of the Corps of Cadets” recently submitted by the commis sioned and non-commissioned offi cers of the Corps, “It will be un authorized assumption of command by one cadet over another whereby the latter . . . shall suffer any harassment (mental or physical/ . . .”, said Morgan. “Their jurisdiction of the act as an initiation ceremony and as a common practice in fraternities and other organizations in other col leges throughout the State and Na tion is not valid at A&M college. Our standards of honor, truth, in tegrity, authority and responsibil ity are higher than those that will be found elsewhere. Therefore, any action of this nature is more conspicious in this college than in any other college. There may be some who will in terpret the failure of these stu dents to live up to our ideals as a reflection on the Corps of Cadets in general. The fallacy of such reasoning is evident when you re alize that in our Corps of Cadets (3500 strong) we have the largest group organized in a single unit that will be found in any college in the country. “Therefore, it is not surprising although it is disappointing, to find that a fraction of 1 per cent of the group has deviated from accepted standards,” he concluded. Business Clubs Hear Cudlipp At Banquet American business men must “sell” the free enterprise system to the rest of the world, A. E. Cudlipp, member of the board of directors, told the business majors last night. Speaking at the annual banquet of the business and marketing so cieties in the Memorial Student Center, Cudlipp compared the American free enterprise system to a product. “Our system is generally taken too much for granted,” he said. “If people understand the free en terprise system, they will be less susceptible to foreign ideologies.” “Free enterprise, as a product, has been losing ground in the con sumer’s market. It must be sold and serviced as a product,” Cudlipp said. He urged the students to “in clude, as part of your life’s work, the selling of the American free enterprise system.” T. W. Leland, head of the busi ness administration department, thanked the Lufkin industrialist for his talk. Leland also thanked the officers and members of both societies for their “support of the department this year.” Mitchell Spadachene and Glen Blake, presidents of the business and marketing societies, alternated as toastmasters. Charles Beagle gave the invocation before the meal. Judging Team Wins Annual Meet A ten-man team of junior and senior students in dairy husbandry has been named winner of the 24th annual Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging contest. One hundred and forty-two teams from 56 colleges and universities were entered in the contest. This contest is sponsored by Hoard’s Dairyman, a magazine for dairymen. Judging was done by looking at pictures. Texas A&M last won the contest in 1948. Members of the winning team are L. M. Braxiel, J. H. Wuensche, D. A. Dacy, D. B. Wheeler, G. L. Dalton, G. M. Rosenberg, R. T. Reese, P. T. Hathbone, L. M. Scott, and J. W. Kincaid. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Considerable cloudiness with light showers today. High yes terday 82. Low this morning 60.