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on 'blume 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1954 Price 5 Cents Hi , • m gjjn^rrriTTnMr i l can! ». 2 ftO n eat. The new contemporary design Lutheran church B ie corner of Cross and Tauber streets at North "hurch, which was begun in January, will be ;he first of September, according to the Rev. e:ert, pastor. The church, designed by Ernest ).i Frank Lawyer, will seat 255 persons. oz, eivs Briefs JR.,' as is his hab- > ver many years, is /yo ace his garden on “You know I real- natoes thisB year, VASBER, head of .‘fining- and natural •ats Are . ii By , Cartliy 11 ~ prf IVClCpoN — (/P) — tcCarthy (Rep.) charged Mon- # , ny accusations nd his aids were r o prominent Dem- om :fort to make the :y commit suicide wo-party system, reply. Sen. Stuart ■m.) of Missouri, >crats named, blas- as a spreader of nded doubts as to ii t integrity of the ID'armed forces and hower administra- Ibi IAS r-Symington clash to arise between ght in the name of onetime chief aid dent Truman. the! last twenty- onitored telephone duced as evidence hearings on the Carthy and Army sclosed among oth- Secretary of the 7. Stevens took a t on at least three 3 Army career of drafted McCarthy gas section of the Engineering Ex tension service, has prepared a se ries of extension service training manuals appearing in the “Petroleo Americano,” an oil and gas jour nal published in South America. The manuals are titled “Funda mentals of General Refinery Pracr tices.” * * * MORE THAN 12,p00 visitors were on the campus during the month of May. The visitors at tended short courses, conferences and meetings, the inauguration of the president, commencement and Mother’s day activities. * * * THE FORMER Students associa tion is compiling a book on “stories of the A&M ring.” Everyone who has a true story of the ring is in vited to tell Allen Pengelly, editor of the Texas Aggie. 4: sfc & THE ARROWMOON district committee of the Boy Scouts will have its district meeting tonight at the Franklin Baptist church in Franklin. The meeting starts at 8 p.m. T POWER TSCO — <2P) _ Ve- for power line iclude some odd tions. “Sno-cats” line maintenance rls over mountain- ?ks. Amphibious wigate marshlands in patroling trans- Tank trucks with dc towers enable to wash the dust m insulators atop n oday ABB 3rd.- ' CLOUDY thunderstorms to .one in this area. School Conference To Hear Willett Dr. H. I. Willett, superintend ent of the Richmond, Va., public schools, will deliver the principal address at the general assembly, opening the school conference here June 21-23. President David H. Morgan will give the welcome address. The conference will mark the 18th annual meeting of the Texas School Administration conference, the 29th of the Texas Association of County Superintendents and the fourth meeting of the Texas as sociation for Instructional Super visors. George B. Wilcox, head of the education and psychology depart ment, is general chairman and sec retary to the conference. Six hun dred are due to attend. Subjects to be discussed at the group meetings include, “Accred itation,” “Evaluation Programs,” “Special School Services,” “Public School Finance and Property Eval uation,” “Supervisory Functions,” “School Boards,” “Vocational Ed ucation,” “Summer Programs,” and “Interscholastic League Activities.” Statewide 4-11 Club Roundup Starts Here Today; 1,600 Members Expected Summer Series Begins in Grove Summer entertainment at A&M will start tomorrow with the first film in the Grove. The film, “The Big Leaguer,” is the first of 23 films to be shown. Students who paid their activity fee at registration will be admitted free. Single admittance tickets are 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children. Adult season tickets are $2.00 and children’s season tickets are $1.00. Children must be 12 or under to get in at the reduce rate. Movies will be shown each Mon day, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Other summer entertainment features will be the cpllege golf ppurse and intramural softball. The golf course will be open during the daylight hours all sum mer. The faculty and staff free Phipps Will Speak At Pipe Meeting Bart Phipps, coordinator of plumbing apprentice training for the Engineering Extension service, will give a progress report on in structional material at the annual meeting of the Texas Pipe Trades association June 18-19 in Corpus Christi. Phipps plans to urge that a bat tery of aptitude tests for plumb ing apprentices, prepared by the TEES be employed by joint ap prenticeship committees over the state in the selection of appren tices. The tests were designed upon the request ,of the state joint appren ticeship committee, and can only be used upon the request of that organization, Phipps said. The TEES also expects to com plete instructional material for re frigeration, heating and air con ditioning courses by Sept. 1, 1954. 1,100 Registered In Unofficial Count Complete figures on yester day’s summer school registration are not ready, but an unofficial count before the end of regis tration showed about 1,100 stu dents had registered. About 1,500 were expected. Registration will be officially over at 5 p.m. Thursday, said H. L. Heaton, registrar, but stu dents have until Friday to drop or add courses. FAMILY IN TUNE SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (A>)— Mis. Iva Mead, a social service worker, asked the man of the house for his name. “Piano,” he said. “Your first name?* she asked. “Parlor,” he said. “Really?” she asked. “Really!” the man replied. So she wrote down—“ Mr. Parlor Piano.” “Any children?” she inquired. “Just one,” the answed came. “And it’s first name, please.” “Well, to save you time, I’ll get out the birth certificate,” Piano said. The name on the certificate— “Grand Piano.” instructional clinic offered by Man ager Joe Fagan will be given every Monday and Wednesday at 5 p.m. Free group classes for ladies and children will be arranged if inter est justifies, said C. G. (Spike) White, student activities director. At least one intramural game will be . played each night during the week, except Friday. Games will be on the lighted softball dia mond. There will not be any live talent concerts this year, for the first time in many years. Small atten dance and high cost are the reasons for discontinuing the concerts. White said. Rebel Troops Cut Closer To French Defense HANOI, Indochina—UP) — Viet-Minh troops from Dien Bien Phu cut closer to the Red River Delta Monday in a huge scissors movement aimed at slicing through French Union de fenses in North-eastern Indochina. Pivoting from Phu Tho, sixty- five miles northwest of Hanoi, the rebel columns pressed on despite poundings from tons of high explo sive bombs dropped by French pilots from American-supplied B-26’s, Corsairs, Privateers and Helldivers. While the rebel columns cut in from the west, other Viet-Minh that have infiltrated the delta un til they now number more than 100,000 struck at small French garrisons Sunday. Two Viet-Namese military posts fell to the rebels after night at tacks, one near Son Tay, thirty- five miles northwest of Hanoi, and the other near Haip-Hong, the big Chinese Sea port through which in dispensable American war supplies reach the French. The French are heavily reinforcing the Haiphong area. North of Haiphong, a third Gar rison smashed off its attackers in a six-hour battle that once saw Viet-Minh troops grab part of the French fortifications. Other Viet-Namese and French troops, mopping up rebels within a few miles of Hanoi, reported killing about fifty rebels and capturing a score more. PENSIONERS STAY HEALTHY SYDNEY, N. S.—tP)—They say if you put a Scotsman on pension he’ll live forever. Bolstering this adage are 15 ex-miners, mostly of Scottish descent, on the pension rolls of a coal company here. All are over 90 years old, and all plan to enjoy retirement for years to come. They are some of the men who started in the pits at 11 or 12 years of age, back in the days before child labor laws and trade unions. They earned up to 50 cents a day. Some worked in the same mine-shaft for more than 50 years. Silver Anniversary Firemen Get Truck, Building Plans for the Silver Annversary Firemen’s Training school are mov ing ahead, with the construction of a special building, the gift of a fire truck, and the invitation of representatives from the US air force. More than 1,200 persons from all over the state will attend the school. The building is to be completed by June 30, according to Col. Ft. R. Brayton, director of the school. In addition to serving as a train ing school base of operations, the 40-foot by 100-foot quonset-type stiucture will be used to accom modate fire-pump maintenance classes and provide storage for training school fire apparatus and equipment. The classroom work shop will accommodate 60 to 75 firemen students. A 20-foot concrete slab in front of the building will be used for washing fire trucks. Water hy drants will be located nearby. A fenced area will be used for bulk storage. The headquarters will be central ly located on the 26-acre firemen’s training field on the campus. Ladder Truck The city of Austin has given the school a 1928-model aerial ladder truck, to be used in teaching the principles of fire fighting. The 85-foot truck will be used to illus trate the mechanics of ladder mani pulation, raising, lowering, extend ing a bridging, and advancing of the hose to upper floors of build ings. It also will be used to demon strate practical methods of testing ladders, tightening rungs and beams, and refinishing. The training school teaches the latest methods of combatting all types of fires, featuring realistic and dramatic educational displays. House Fires Instructors show first-hand how to extinguish fires in houses, large pits, oil field tanks, dykes, butane tank fires, simulated ruptured gas line fires, conflagrations in high- pressure stills in refineries, service station fires, airplane crash fires, and others. Also invited to attend the school are representatives from air force commands in the United States and Caribbean area. Brayton said he had received “favorable re plies” from the air force invita tions. Short Courses Included In Week-Long Meet About 1,600 4-H club members from Texas, with their leaders start today a week-long Roundup which will include study, play, banquets and a judging contest. Attending the annual Roundup are two boys, two girls and two adults from each Texas county. The boys and girls are either winners of district contests or selected for 4-H achievements. First to arrive yesterday were the 24 members of the state 4-H council, who will play leading roles in all the activi ties. Mildred Harris, assistant state 4-H club leader, is in charge of the Roundup. Nineteen short courses on agricultural subjects are offered the club members in - * the afternoons. State finals in fudging and demonstration contests will be Thursday. Evening programs include the Share the Fun festival tonight, the chuck wagon feed and enter tainment Wednesday, and the rec ognition banquet and special enter tainment Thursday. The State 4-H recognition com mittee, headed by Hershel Burgess of College Station, is responsible for the Wednesday program, which is provided by more than 50 indi viduals, business, commercial, and industrial firms of the state. The final night program is given by the Sears-Roebuck foundation. Roundup Speakers Speakers to be heard during the Roundup morning programs include G. G. Gibson, Agricultural Exten sion service director; the Rev. A. T. Dyal, pastor of the First Presby terian church of Bay City; Dr. Imogene Bentley, dean of women at North Texas State college; M. T. Harrington, A&M system chancel lor; David H. Morgan, A&M pres ident; and Paul (Bear) Bryant, A&M athletic director. Short courses offered the club members are agricultural engineer ing, agricultural information, agronomy, animal husbandry, clothing, dairy husbandry, entomol ogy, family life, farm management. Foods and nutrition, forestry, home management, homestead im provement, horticulture, poultry, range management, recreation, thp role of 4-H leaders, and wildlife. Largest Meeting The Roundup is the largest state wide 4-H meeting held in Texas. Sponsored by the Agricultural Ex tension service, the meeting was once a part of the farmers’ short course. It has been meeting on the A&M campus for almost 50 years. The theme of the 1954 Roundup is “building a stronger America.” And for the meeting,- the green- and-white cloverleaf flag of the 4-H club is flying under the Amer ican flag on campus flagpoles. Life Guards Needed At Swimming Pool Lifeguards are needed to work at the P. L. Downs jr. natatorium during the afternoons. Interested candidates should see Art Adamson, swimming coach, at the pool. Lifeguards are paid, and must have a Red Cross senior life saving certificate. Batt Loses Its ‘Ears 9 From Page There’s something new about today’s Battalion. The Bat has lost its ears. The “ears,” or type on either side of the “The Battalion” nameplate at the top of the page, have been removed to streamline the page and make life easier for the postoffice employees. The machine that addresses Battalions for mailing usually stamps the address right across the type in the ears, making it almost impossible to decipher, according to the post office. TEES Men Aid Industrial School Two industrial teacher trainers of the Engineering Extension service are assisting in conducting a six-week summer course of the trade and industrial school at the University of Texas. The trainers are M. D. Darrow and Mark Lowery. Darrow teach es classes on the development and use of industrial material and Low- rey instructs pupils on methods of teaching industrial subjects. The trade and industrial school is a joint enterprise of A&M and the University pf Texas. Summer courses are -conducted alternately at each of the schools. The training course, which start ed June 7, provides required certi fication courses for trade and in dustrial teachers. PERILS OF TEACHING STORM LAKE, la.—(A 1 )—When the leading man in the class play fell ill, School Supt. Charles Wa- terbury of Nemaha filled in. The roll called for him to spend considerable time on stage minus his trousers. The play title was “Let Me Out of Here.” Waterbury was voted a smash hit by the audience. DINNER TAKES OFF WINDSOR, Ont. —(A>) —A hen pheasant crashed through Mrs. Raymond Pare’s kitchen window. She later told a Windsor Star pho tographer she planned to eat the bird. With that, the pheasant squawked, flapped its wings and flew out the window, breaking an other pane of glass. Goode Will Head Study Of Insurance Laws ^Phillip B. Goode, College Station attorney and professor of business law at A&M College, has been retained by Texas Legisla tive council at Austin to head a study to be made of the insurance laws of Texas. The Legislative council, made up of five members of the Senate and 10 members of the House with the lieutenant governor as its chair man and the Speaker of the House as its vice-chairman, makes stud ies for the legislature. Executive director, A. W. Worthy, heads a research staff and calls in experts from time to time on a consultation basis to assist in special fields of study. Goode, before joining the A&M staff, had 10 years’ experience in the insurance field as a claims at torney and administrator of in surance for a manufacturing con cern. Two years ago, he carried out another assignment for the Texas Legislative council in a study on the Gross Premiums Tax. The study to be made now will follow three lines of investigation dictated by the council: (1) Tigh- er organizational requirements, such as increasing minimum begin ning cash assets of certain com panies. (2) Improved controls over fin ancial structures after organiza tion, such as placing insurance stocks under the State Securities act, (3) Improved administrative en forcement, such as authorizing an increased number of examiners for the Insurance Commission. Goode’s work will be first to outline the course qf investigation and then to coordinate the various research assignments as work pro gresses until a final report is pre sented to the Legislative council.; Film Society Sets fe Lif eboat’ Thursday The Memorial {Student Center Film society will show “Lifeboat” for its first show of the summer season Thursday. The film will be in the MSC ball room at 7:15 p.m. Starring Talullah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Can ada Lee, Henry Hull, and Walter Slezak, the film shows the behavior of six men and three women, each with widely different backgrounds, adrift in a single life boat. BEAR IS A BIRD SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.— (A*)—A black bear was discovered in Michigan’s Blaney Park making like a bird. Unlike brother bruins hibernat ing in dens in the ground, this bear slept in a pine tree 53 feet above the ground. The bear came wob bling out of a hole near the top when the giant tree was felled. It lumbered off, unhurt. - ? A#. - ' V : NEW SCHOOL—Two buildings for A&M Consolidated’s new high school begins to take form. The steel framework of the large building in the foreground is almost com pleted and the walls have been put on the smaller building in the background. The new school is east of the present school.