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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1954
Fast Disciplina ry Action
Aids Consolidation Chances
Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy said last
night that the recent incident of "the use
of the board should not be considered a weak
ness of the college or the corps of cadets as
a whole.
He also said that the test would come in
what action the college took against the of
fenders.
He’s right on both counts. This incident
of the use of the board, although serious,
involves only three of A&M’s cadets. It
doesn’t even involve the whole organization
at whose party the board was used. Just
three men, out of 3,500.
And the action the college takes will show
what its attitude toward hazing is. For the
corps consolidation proposal to succeed, and
for A&M to grow, the board must be elimi
nated. Severe punishment for offenders is
the only way.
But there are nine other men involved in
the case, technically as offenders against
College Regulations, but realistically unwill
ing victims of circumstances. The nine jun
iors who have the marks of hazing should be
punished, but not too severely.
The “system” here is hard for an under
classman to fight. One junior said that he
had sworn that he would not submit to haz
ing. But at the party where the recent in
cident took place, he submitted. “What
could I do,” he said. “I couldn’t walk out
on my buddies.” }
What could he do? Few men have the
courage to face the possible ostracism and
other consequences of such a refusal. Ad-
mitedly, more men should have, and perhaps
someday A&M men will.
But now these juniors are the victims of
the “system.” They should not be held re
sponsible and severely punished.
Who Robs Stamp Machines:
One of the unfortunate characteristics of
money is everyone doesn’t have lots of it.
In fact, many students here either have
to work their way through school or figure
out some extra source of income to ease the
cost of their education.
One of them put stamp vending machines
in the dormitories in September and had to
take out the ones which were left last week.
While the machines were in the dormitor
ies, 13 of them pere pried open. The stamps
and money were removed.
Every indication points to the thefts be
ing committed by the same person or per
sons, since the method of entry w^as the same
in each case. All the machines but one were
robbed during Easter holidays when dormi
tories were virtually empty.
There is no way to determine whether a
student was involved or whether some tran
sient crook saw a chance to pick up a little
pocket money and proceeded to rifle the
machines. It is extremely difficult to catch
a thief of that type unless he is caught in
the act.
An unusual twist to the situation is the
student’s father helped pay his own expenses
at A&M in the twenties by doing odd jobs
and selling newspapers and magazines.
At that time, students had candy tables
in dormitory hallways. The tables were
loaded down with boxes of candy and had a
cigar box with small change for the conven
ience of students who made purchases while
the candy owner was in class. Magazines
and newspapers were sold in the same man
ner.
The reason we mention the father is to
point out how much times and people appar
ently have changed.
It isn’t likely a student today would
dream of leaving a cigar box full of small
change out in a dormitory hallway while he
went to class.
Matter of fact, it’s not even safe to leave
a stamp machine out in the hallway.
Customs Search
For Valuable
Cache Of Gems
BATON ROUGE, La., May
11 •— UP) — Sheriff’s officers
and customs agents searched
today for an estimated $500,-
000 in jewels, many of which
the owner said he obtained in
bombed-out Germany for “ciga
rettes, food rations and candy
bars.”
Sheriff Bryan Clemmons said
the huge cache of gems was re
ported taken from a bureau draw
er in a Baton Rouge home. He
identified Woodrow W. Lewis, an
industrial plant employe, as own
er of the jewels and said Lewis
reported them stolen last Thurs
day.
Lewis told the Baton Rouge
State-Times he bought most of the
jewels while serving with Gen.
George Patton’s army in Germany
and “I got them from civilians who
let them go for cigarettes, food
rations and candy bars.”
He said one diamond had been
valued by the Smithsonian Insti
tution at $131,964.31. He said he
found the diamond in 1935 near
Smoot, W. Va.
Lewis said there were 28 other
diamonds missing, ranging in size
from 1 Vz to six carats. Also gone,
he said were an emerald, rubies,
opals, star sapphires and “a loose
assoi'tment of all kinds of cut dia
monds.”
He said he had kept the gems
in an unlocked bureau drawer.
Customs authorities said they
were interested in whether the
jewels reported stolen had entered
the country illegally.
PINALLE DANCER—Miss Josie Guerra is half of a two-
girl dance team from Laredo that will perform at the last
Rue Pinalle of the year at 8 p.m. in the games area of the
Memorial Student Center.
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Work On Buildings
To Begin May 17
Work on new buildings for A&M
approved by the board of directors
will begin May 17, said T. R.
Spence, manager of the Physical
Plant.
The Highway Research center
will cost $178,812 and will be built
west of the old veterinary hospital
on Jones street. A covered walk
will connect the two buildings.
A veterinary science building, a
small animal building, and a large
animal shelter will be constructed
east of the new veterinary hospital
at a cost of $1,040,086.
A warehouse for the Fireman
Training school will be built north
of College View.
A building site for the A&M
Press has not been decided yet.
Texas Counties
To Get Funds
For Erosion
WASHINGTON, May 11 —
UP) — Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson announced to
day a tentative allocation of
10 million dollars in emergen
cy wind erosion control funds
among dust bowl states of the
Southwest and a list of counties in
which the funds will be made avail
able.
The initial allocations included
Colorado, $1,638,000; Kansas, $2,-
344,000; New Mexico, $935,000;
Oklahoma $261,000; and Texas, $"2,-
322,000.
The 10 million dollar fund was
made available last week by Presi
dent Eisenhower from his emer
gency funds, pending completion of
congressional action on a bill to
appropriate 15 million for control
work.
On the basis of recommendations
from Gov. Shivers, these Texas
counties have been approved for
emergency control measures:
Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey,
Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro,
Childress, Cochran, Coke, Collings
worth, Cottle, Crane, Crosby, Cul
bertson, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf
Smith, Dickens, Donley, Ector,
Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Gaines,
Glasscock, Gray, Hale.
Hall, Hansford, Hardenman,
Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hock
ley, Howard, Hutchinson, Irion,
Jones, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb,
Lipscomb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn,
Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Moore,
Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham,
Parmer, Potter, Randall, Reagan.
Reeves, Roberts, Scurry, Sher
man, Sterling, Stonewall, Swisher,
Terry, Tom Green, Upton, Ward,
Wheeler, Wilbarger, Winkler and
Yoakum.
Whai’s Cooking
THURSDAY
7:15 p. m.—Lavaca county A&M
club meeting, Academic building.
San Antonio club meeting, room
301, Goodwin hall. Plans for elect
ion of officers.
7:30 p. m.—Panhandle club meet
ing, Academic building. To dis
cuss function.
Wichita Falls hometown club
meeting, room 128, Academic build
ing.
Amarillo A&M club meeting,
room 125, Academic building. Final
plans for Spring function. Every
one please be there.
Beaumont A&M club meeting,
room 104, Academic building. Final
meeting. Plans^ for beach party.
Corpus Christi club meetfng,
MSC. Important meeting to elect
officers for next year and an
nounce plans for the end of school
party.
8 p. m. — South Louisiana club
meeting, room 11, C. E. building.
Brief but important. Election of
officers.
Dobie Will Speak
At Press Banquet
J. Frank Dobie, author of Texas
tales and adventures, will be the
guest speaker for the Press club
banquet at 7 p. m. Friday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Royal Family Sail
From Gibra Iter
GIBRALTAR, May 12—<A>)_An
irrepressible Princess Anne and an
exuberant Prince Charles put on
the main show yesterday as the
British royal family sailed happily
for home yesterday from this rock
fortress.
The visit of Queen Elizabeth II
as she wound up her globe-gir
dling tour was a great occasion
for Gibraltar’s 25,000 subjects. De
spite earlier Spanish complaints
which induced the British to take
extraordinary security measures,
there were no untoward incidents.
Spain, which lost “The Rock” to
Britain by treaty 250 years ago,
wants it back.
The crowning scene came as the
new royal yacht Britannia pulled
away from Tower Wharf with the
Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh,
Charles 5, and Anne 3, together
on the after deck -waving to the
crowd.
The marine band on the upper
deck struck up with “Rule Brit
annia,” and Charles and Anne
scampered up the ladder in full
view of the spectators to join the
band.
A stern parental command and
a wave of the arm by the Duke
Shivers Expects
Opposition
From Demos
POINT CLEAR, Ala., May
11—UP) — Gov. Shivers said
today he expected opposition
from some Democratic leaders
in his third-term bid for gov-
Vacationing with his wife and a
group of Texas friends, Shivers
told the Mobile Press, “I believe
I am a better Texas Democrat
than many who claim to be Dem
ocrats. I believe in the Democratic
party as it has always been. Many
are trying to turn the party over
to the Eastern and Northern pinkos
and liberals.”
Shivers defended his support of
President Eisenhower in the 1952
election, and said the Democratic
party in Texas does not have a
requirement such as Alabama,
where primary candidate s must
swear they supported the party
nominees in the preceding presi
dential race.
Shivers will leave for Texas to
morrow. He will go on a state de
partment sponsored tour to Koi’ea
with a group of governors before
formally launching his campaign
for re-election.
Son Born To Geigers
At St. Joseph’s Friday
A son, John Keith, was born to
Mr. and Mrs. John Geiger Friday
at 6:15 p. m. at St. Joseph’s hos
pital.
The baby weighted six pounds
and four ounces. The Geigers have
one other child, Malcolm Conrad,
2y 2 .
Geiger is manager of the Me
morial Student Center bowling
alleys.
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brought Charles obediently down.
But Anne stuck it out at the top
of the ladder, waving to the crowd
and having a grand time. The
Duke called to her three or four
times and waved his arms at her,
while the Queen turned around
laughing.
Finally the Duke climbed . the
ladder, tucked Anne under his arm
and brought her down to rejoin
the family as the yacht swung
around past the thousands lined
up ashore.
Architects To Do
Residential Plan
Thirty-one architectural students
will compete in a residential plan
ning contest Friday for $50 in
prizes.
Dr. F. B. Clark of Bryan is
donating the prize money.
Fourth and fifth year students of
the city planning class were given
the problem as class work. The
problem includes location of major
streets and lots in an area south
east of College Station. Total area
of the problem is 90 acres.
Problems will be judged Friday
and awards presented Saturday.
First prize is $25, second prize,
$15, and third prize, $10.
Judges will be Melvin Rotsch and
Gale Vetter of the architecture de
partment, and Robert White of the
landscape architecture department.
Landers Presented
Danforth Award
Roger Q. Landers Jr. has been
awarded the Danforth graduate
fellowship for the completion of
graduate studies in range and
forestry.
Landers, a graduating senior,
was one of 63 students in the na
tion selected to receive this award.
It is sponsored by the Danforth
foundation of St. Louis. He also
won the Danforth summer fellow
ship in 1953.
Landers is chancellor of Alpha
Zeta, the national honorary agri
cultural society, ex-president of
the collegiate 4-H club and mem
ber of the Consolidated band.
He was awarded the national 4-
H achievement award scholarship
and has won over 300 individual
awards in livestock exhibits
throughout Texas.
The Danforth foundation was
established by William Danforth,
chairman of the board of directors
of the Ralston Purina company.
Senior Invitations
Can Be Picked Up
Graduation announcements for
seniors are in and may be picked up
at the office of student activities,
said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus
iness manager of student activities.
A few extra announcements were
ordered and will be sold.
Receipts must be presented at
the main desk when announcements
are picked up, said Hardesty.
Giraffes have long necks to
enable them to nibble tasty sprouts
from the ends of tree limbs.
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