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To 90 Per Cent
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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.