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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 237: Volume 53 Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1954 Price 5 Centa Battalion Wins $500 First Prize In Safely Contest * The Battalion won $500 first prize in a newspaper safety con test. The Battalion won the top award in the daily classification for its annual safety edition, published Dec. 17, 1953, just before the Christmas holidays. “Texas A&M, the newspaper edi tors and staff are to be congrat ulated for performing a noteworthy public service,” said Hathaway G. Kemper, president of the Lumber mens Mutual Casualty company, which sponsors the contest. Ed Holder and Jerry Bennett were co-editors at that time. The University of California Daily Trojan won the $250 second prize in the daily field, and the University of Texas Daily Texan won $100 third prize. More than 250 entries were judged in the fi nals of the contest. Judges were Robert Campbell, former president of the Campbell Lumber and Manufacturing com pany, Toledo; Melvin C. Eaton, president and general manager of the Norwich Pharmical company, Norwich; L. J. McEnnis, director of publications, Northwestern Univer sity Traffic institute, Evanston, Ill. Theodore Foster, president and director, Foster Paper company, Utica, New York; Walter Robb jr., partnei', Hemphill, Noyes and company, Inc., Boston; Thomas L. Ruffin, president of Ruffin and Payne, Inc., Richmond, Va. First prize in the non-daily field was won by The Baronette, College ^of Steubenville, Ohio. The Battal ion and The Daily Texan were the enly Texas newspapers to place in the contest, which is entered by Field Day Set For Agriculture Friends of agriculture from all ’ over the state will gather here Thursday for the Fifth Annual City Farm and Ranch Club Field day. The program will begin at 10 a.m. and will end at 6 p.m. During the day four departments jn the School of Agricultui-e will take the club members through specially prepared exhibits and to field sites, and will explain in de tail the function of each depart ment in teaching, research and ex tension. Current research pro grams will be outlined and ex plained. Departments which will take J>art in the program are range and forestry, dairy husbandry, animal husbandry and agronomy. The programs which they will present will be more detailed than has been possible during past field days be cause fewer will be participating and more time will be available, Dean C. N. Shepardson said. college newspapers from all over the nation. “It will be up to the staff to decide what to do with the prize money,” said Harri Baker, co-edi tor. “It’s theirs.” The Battalion safety edition is entered in the contest each year. In the past, the paper has won best feature, best cartoon, and sev eral honorable mention awards. This year’s four-page edition was published on the Thursday before the Christmas holidays started, as a part of the regular Thursday paper. The first four pages were devoted to the safety edition, with the regular page one for news ap pearing on page five. Besides special pictures and ar ticle on all forms of safety, the paper also carried editorials and cartoons. Most of the paper was devoted to automobile safety, but other forms of safety were in cluded. The entire Battalion staff work ed on weekends to put out the spe cial edition. NEW PRESIDENT—Chancellor M. T. Harrington (right) gives the formal oath of inauguration to President David H. Morgan. The inauguration ceremonies were Thursday. Graduation Address Lynch Lauds Golden Rule PUSHBUTTON THEFT OMAHA — UP)—Police reported car strippers tried to steal the horn off a car, but couldn’t budge it so they settled for the horn but ton. They also took the engine, radio, heater, gear shift assembly, transmission, muffler, battery, fen der skirts, three hub caps and three tires. The president of the Texas Pow er and Light company of Dallas told the 800-member graduating class here Friday that “no one has ever been able to improve on ‘do ing unto others as you would have others do unto you’.” W. W. Lyhch cited eight traits “that seem to fit practically all lines of activity. First is drive,” he said and “probably it is a mod ern word for old-time hard work and ambition. Second is friend ship—get along well with people; third is leadership—inspire con fidence in others and use ability to guide the organization.” “The fourth is decision,” Lynch said, “force yom-self to take a stand. Fifth is judgment—predict the probable outcome of decisions; sixth is vision—thrust your imag ination beyond immediate prob lems and goals; seventh is effective expression—express thoughts and ideas convincingly and persuasive ly.” The eighth he said is doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. The speaker, an A&M graduate, class of ’22, said “our economy, our businesses, our industries, our agriculture and our society in gen eral have become so broad in their scopes and so complex in their op erations that highly-trained indi viduals with resourcefulness, with experience and with integrity are at a premium to serve as tech nicians and managers.” “If you have any doubt about the place of the technical graduate in America’s future, you need on ly look to the record clearly writ ten in history of the past. In 1900, industry in this country employed one technical graduate for each 250 employes. By 1952, U. S. in dustry was employing one techni cal graduate for each 60- em ployees,” he said. The valedictory address was giv en by Ide P. Trotter jr., of Bryan. The degrees were conferred by President David H. Morgan. Final review was Saturday morning. Army commissions as second lieutenants were presented to 210 cadets by Maj. Gen. Charles E. Hart, a West Pointer now com manding general of the artillery center at Fort Sill, Okla. Another 150 graduates received air force Storage Rooms Will Be Open Today, Friday Students may store person al belongings during the sum mer terms today and Friday. Items will be stored in the basement of K ramp in Wal ton hall. Storerooms will be open from 3 to 5 this afternoon and from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday. “All students who will attend the first summer term and not the sec ond may baggage in K ramp or Walton hall July 16 from 2 to 4 p.m.,” said Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. The storage is being handled by the Agronomy society. Prices for storage are as follows: Lamps, 50 cents; baggage not exceeding footlocker size, 40 cents; other pieces, pi*oportionate rates; bicy cles, one dollar. Storage charges will be paid at the time of storing. “All items not picked up from storage rooms before Oct. 1 will be disposed of in order to clear the rooms,” said Zinn. “All baggage will be stored at the student’s risk, but all possible precautions will be taken to safeguard it.” commissions presented by Maj. Gen. G. P. Dissoway, commander of the flying training air force at Waco. Honorary degrees were awarded three former students in the class es of 1901, 1909 and 1927. They were Thomas H. Barton of El Dor ado, Ark.; David B. Harris of Houston, and William C. Tinus of Maplewood, N.J. Dr. Gaston Foote, pastor of the First Methodist church, Fort Worth, gave the baccalaureate ser mon. Cer tif (caieS 111 < ien IsCan Get ANG Commissions Wardens School Closes Thursday Doc St. Clair of Fort Worth, first president of the Texas Wildlife federation, will be the principal speaker at graduation exercises for 15 new game wardens here Thurs day. Howard D. Dodgen, executive secretary of the Texas Game and Fish commission, will also be a speaker. Clayton Nolen of Marble Falls will make the class response, and Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the wildlife management department, will present diplomas. This will be the eighth graduat ing class from the Game Warden school, conducted by the Game and Fish, commission and the wildlife management department. Of more than 170 wardens in the state, approximately 100 have at tended the school, according to Joe Matlock of Fort Worth, a wai’den and one of the class instructors. The school lasts one regular se mester at the college, with future wardens attending 21 hours of in- Fifty-Three Take Offer So Far About 53 A&M air ROTC graduates who received cer tificates of completion have taken advantage of the air force’s offer to give them commissions in the air national guard. Twelve men have refused the offer. The commissions are as ANG second lieutenants. The men commissioned will go on “active duty for training” with the air force as second lieutenants for three years. They will then serve three more years in active partici pation in an ANG unit, including 48 paid unit training as semblies and 15 days of field training each year. Officers on active duty for training are not promoted on the same basis as other officers on active duty, because they are members of the ANG, on training status with the air force. Also, they are not entitled to travel funds for dependants or shipment of household goods, and they do not receive veterans benefits when they get out. The plan is a joint one of the air force and the air national guard. It was developed because the ANG needs men in such fields as supply, maintainence, adminis tration, operations, personnel, en- gineeiing and finance. The option is open only to cate gory II (non-flying, technical) and category III (non-flying, non-tech- nical) students. These men wei-e to receive certificates of comple tion, which means that they would have been allowed to volunteer for the air force as airmen third class. If they do not take the ANG commission, they can still volun teer as airmen third class. It is not open to those category IT and III men who received com missions Friday, or to category I and IA (pilot and observer) men who have withdrawn approved ap plications for flight training. Forty per cent of A&M category II men and one category III men received commissions Friday. The option of a ANG commis sion is also good for summer camp, summer school, and January grad uates next year, said Maj. H. O. Johnson, senior air science instruc tor. This includes about 95 per sons. It will not effect June grad uates next year, he said. “They will probably all get commissions, since we gave contracts this year to only those whom we thought we could commission,” Johnson said. About 66 certificates of comple tion were given at the Friday com missioning exercises. The ANG plan was announced Friday after noon. Men who received certificates of completion must notify the air science detachment here before 5 p.m. tomorrow if they wish to ac cept the ANG commission. Batt First With News On Commissions The Battalion was first in the College Station area with the news that all air ROTC graduates would be commis sioned. A Battalion staff member, listening to an Austin radio station, heard at noon Fihday that the University of Texas would commission all their air ROTC graduates. A telephone call to the air science detachment at UT re vealed that they had gotten a call from ROTC headquarters, giving the information on the commissions. The Battalion called the air science headquarters here, and they called ROTC headquarters to confirm the news. Since it was too late then to have the notice in Friday’s paper. The Battalion put a bul letin on radio station WTAW. FSA Elec t s Hotchkiss President Oscar T. Hotchkiss jr., ’24, Port Arthur, was elected president of the council of the Association of Former Students at the Saturday meeting in the Memorial Student Center. Hotchkiss was vice president of the association in 1953. Former member of the executive board, he is a past president of Port Arthur A&M club and chairman of the Chapel committee. Hotchkiss is a Gulf Oil company executive. W. Lambert Ballard, ’22, Dallas, was elected vice president of the council. Class agent Ballard has been a member of the council since its organization. He is a former dis trict vice president, past president of the Dallas A&M club, and execu tive vice pi’esident of the South west Reserve Life Insurance com pany. Herman Heep, ’20, Austin; K. C. Salley, ’25, Alice; and John Cuthrell, ’29, New Orleans, were elected new members of the execu tive board. District vice presidents who were elected in their respective 11 districts were B. M. (Honk) ’40, Big Spring; Weldon Maples, ’43, Fort Worth. J. D. Langford, ’28, Tyler; Othel Weather Today SPRING SHOWERS Continued showers in the area today until 4 p.m. this afternoon. Showers diminishing after mid night. High yesterday 84; low to day 62. Neely, ’48, Waco; John H. Lindsey, ’44, Houston; C. A. Chipley, ’26, San Antonio; Augustine Celaya, ’47, Brownsville; Frank S. Kelly, ’26, Shrevepoi*t, Louisiana district and Maj. Gen. Alvin Luedecke, ’32, Washington, D. C., vice president at large. Sterling C. Evans, ’21, president of Houston Federal Land Bank; James W. Aston, ’33, vice presi dent of Republic National Bank of Dallas; and Estil A. Vance, ’27, Fort Worth National Bank Presi dent; were re-elected trustees of the student loan fund. T. W. Mohle, ’21, T. W. Mohle and Company, Accountants, Hous ton; and W. W. Lynch, ’22, presi dent of Texas Power and Light Company of Dallas, were elected representatives on the Development Fund board. J. B. Longley, ’43, College Sta tion, representative of American General Life Insurance company of Houston, was elected representa tive for the Memorial Student Cen ter council. J. B. (Dick) Hervey, ’42, College Station, was re-elected executive secretary of the association. Irwin, ’34, Lubbock; John F. Younger, ’37, Midland; R. J. Cook, The annual spring council meet ing was opened Saturday with the invocation by L. B. Locke, ’22. Welcoming and introductions were followed by the minutes of the last council meeting. A financial report was given by Locke, assistant secretai’y. Hervey presented a report on the progi’ess of the 1954 Development Fund. Special committee reports were given by X. B. Cox jr., ’37, San Angelo, Club Program committee; D. C. Arnold, ’27, Houston, Class Program committee; Hotchkiss, Chapel committee; A. F. Mitchell, ’09, Student Loan Fund Trustees; E. E. McQuillen, ’20, Texas A&M Development Fund; and E. Kieth Langford, ’32, Houston, Nominat ing committee for councilmen. Roy J. Chappell jr., ’41, Waco, gave a report on the By-Laws Amendment committee. John H. Cuthrell, ’29, New Or leans, presented a report on the Association Employe Retirement committee and the retirement pro gram was approved by the coun cil. (See FORMER STUDENTS, p. 4) struction and four hours of labora tory per week. Admittance to the school is lim ited. From several hundreds of applications, the Game and Fish commission selects 50 or fewer men —who must have had former mili tary service, and between 21 and 35 years of age—to work a mini mum of two months in the field during a hunting or fishing season. Graduating game wardens, their hometowns and the district head- quartei*s to which they will be assigned are: Harvey R. Adams of Carrizo Springs, to Zapata; Lake L. Black of Canadian, to Canadian; Junior L. Briggs of Coleman, to San Saba; B. P. Brooks of Bagwell, to Texar kana; Warren B. Guthrie of Junc tion, to Encinal; W. D. Hem’y of Bryan, to Goliad; John R. Hill Jr. of Fort Worth, to Cleburne. Thomas A. Hughes of Lufkin, to Groveton; Leo Kohleffel of Wei mar, to Columbus; Ellis W. Martin of Llano, to Rock Springs; Clayton Nolen of Marble Falls, to Barnet; Carson L. Seago of Gilmer, to Min- eola; G. E. Schuh of Mexia, to Mexia; John B. Weaver of Wood- ville, to Woodville, and Lonnie R. Wooten of Fort Worth, to Gaines ville. Ritchey Improved After Accident Ted Ritchey, senior who was in jured in an automobile accident last week, was in “good” condition yesterday, according to the College hospital. Ritchey suffered a fractured skull in the accident. Ritchey is being allowed out on the campus, but the hospital is still checking him, hospital authorities said. Another senior, Fred Olds, was released shortly after the ac cident. The accident occurred on old highway six when the car skidded on the shoulder and overturned. A&M Student In Hospital * I After Accident An A&M student is still in the hospital after an head-on automobile collision on high way 6 Saturday. Richard Harper of New Or leans has not regained conscious ness after the accident. He is in the Brazos Valley sanatorium in Navasota, where he was taken af ter the accident. Four other students were in the car with Harper. They have all been released from the hospital. They are James T. Hammers, Or ange; Don Ernest Soefji, New Braunfels; and William Cockerman and John Paul Jones, both of Port Arthur. The driver of the other car. Miss Essie Louise Sims of Beaumont, was released to the Beaumont hos pital from the Brazos Valley san atorium. The accident occured shortly be fore noon on highway six, about 11 miles south of College Station. The A&M students were report ed to be on their way home after Final review. Miss Sims was re ported to have been on her way to Bryan after visiting in Navasota Saturday morning. Highway Patrolman L. V. Duna- gan, who investigated the accident, said it occured on the student’s side of the road. Both cars were a total loss. Electric Group Meets Here „ To Plan Year The Texas Farm Electrifi cation committee met here this morning to discuss pro posed activities for the com ing year. The group is composed of 35 representatives from A&M, and executives of the 12 electric com panies operating in Texas. Dr. F. C. Bolton is chairman, and P. T. Montford of the agricultural en gineering department is project director for the committee. During the sessions this morn ing they heard summaries of re search projects and educational ac tivities sponsored by the A&M system and the committee during the past year. The co-chairman for the farm youth sub-committee reported on the 1953 Texas 4-H electric pro gram and educational activities of the year, including the number of boys and girls enrolled in vocation al agriculture and vocational home economics courses in high schools. Society Elects Pyle President Jerry Pyle was elected president of the Accounting society. Other officers included Bob Du- dek, vice president, and Albert Magnon, secretary-treasurer. T. D. Ledbetter, assistant pro fessor of business administration, was elected sponsor.