13: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1954
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f%By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
—Texas’ big cities could control the September
ition under a method of figuring delegate
t slid like greased lightning through the demo-
ive committee meeting yesterday. Without a
ssent, the committee voted to count all the vptes
fllan Shivers in 1952’s general elections—Demo-
dican, or write-in—in allocating each' couhty’s
nvention.
NIX—A bundle of ransom money and a pistol
7 I yesterday near the Superstition mountains,
0 gapped Evelyn Ann Smith was held captive and
d last week. Mrs. Smith, 23, wife of a Phoep-
man, was abducted at gunpoint from in front
beauty parlor last Wednesday.
Jaime Ortix Patino, grandson of Bolivia’s tin
pliceihere and abroad yesterday to search for his
!months, the former Joanne Connelly, who was
most beautiful debutante in 1948. She disap-
la Rome clinic Thursday.
iE—Officers tried Monday to trace the mem-
. vhite supremacy society whose burning cross
proes to turn out bearing arms. Sheriff Ches-
1 01 Mid the Negroes were quickly sent back to their
r the incident before dawn Sunday. The ©r-
elaims it has members throughout the Gulf
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program in which the boys divide
into “political parties,” campaign
for their candidates for local and
state offices and a legislature.
Attorney General John Ben
Shepperd spoke to the group last
night, telling them that by their
attendance at the Boys’ State they
were “throwing away a privilege
claimed by most of the people 1 of
the country—the privilege of irre
sponsibility as citizens.”
“Though you are not yet 21, your
duty as a citizen has already be
gun,” he said. “With the half
hundred years remaining to you,
you can sentence yourself, your
state and your country to half a
century of freedom, or to 50 years
of half-freedom.” ^
Other speakers will be Lt. Gov.
Ben Ramsey, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court J. E. Hickman,
Comptroller Robert Calvert, Rail
road Commissioner Ernest O.
Thompspn, and Land Commissioner
Bascom Giles.
The Boys’ State governor’s in
augural ball Friday will be the last
function of the week’s program,
and Boys’ State will be dismissed
Saturday morning.
All assemblies are being held on
the University of Texas campus.
76 Cadets Take
Air Guard Offer
Seventy-six A&M air ibree
ROTC cadets have decided to take
commissions in the United States
air national guard, said Maj. H. Q.
Johnson, senior air science instruc
tor.
Cadets who received a certifi
cate of completion in May, and
those who will receive them in
summer school, summer camp and
in January, 1955, have been offer
ed options to apply for commis
sions in the air guard.
“Those cadets who take advan
tage of this program will receive
such privileges as free $10,000 gov
ernment insurance benefits, air
force hospitalization for injury
while on active duty, uniform al
lowances, and the training receiv
ed from the air guard will count
toward retirement benefits,” John
son said.
SINGIN’ GALS—The Kelley Sisters of Bryan will be on
the floor show of the “Stag ’N Hag” Dance tonight in the
Memorial Student Center. They are Sandra (left), and
Sylvia (right).
Batt Chan ges Type
For Easier Readme
With today’s paper. The Battal
ion takes another step in bringing
Texas A&M and the city of Col
lege Station a better newspaper.
Although it is not obvious, a me
chanical change has been made
that will make The Batt easier to
read.
The difference is in the ampunt
of space between the lilies of type.
The lilies have more space between
them than they did before. This
difference is not appahefeit, but it
MSC Will Show
‘Anthony Adverse’
“Anthony Adverse” the film sto
ry of the individual’s adjustment
to the society in which he lives,
will be shown by the Memorial
Student Center Film society at
7:30 p.m. Thursday.
The film features Frederic
March and Olivia DeHavilland in
the lead roles. Produced by War
ner Brothers, the story is reported
by film critics Hervey Allen as
“one of the great modern classics
which, although fiction, shed so
much light upon the adjustment of
individuals to modern society.”
One hundred tickets have already
been sold for the show, according
to Gary Bourgeois of the MSC
entertainment committee. Tickets
are one dollar for adults and 75
cents for children.
Bourgeois said that the society
will show a film each Thursday
night throughout the sumer. Two
bonus movies will be shown for
Society members on dates to be
announced later. One of these
films. Bourgeois said, will be a
musical and the other a foreign
film.
will make reading The Battalion
easier on the eyes.
This is how it was done: The
Battalion’s body type is 8 points
high. “Points” are a standard type
measure, and there are 72 points
to an inch. This means that the
type is one ninth of an inch high.
This height has npt been changed.
What has been changed is the
amount of space between lines.
Formerly, there was only one point
of space between each line; now
there are two points of space, or
twice as much.
To illustrate the difference, this
paragraph you are now reading is
set in the old style; it has less
space between the lines than the
rest of the type in this story and
on the rest of the page. The dif
ference can be seen when the two
styles are compared, but the main
value is that even this small in
crease of spacing makes it easier
to read The Battalion.
Now you are again reading the
new, wider-spaced type. You are
probably not conscious of the
change, but your eye is, and your
eye will appreciate it.
This is another move in The
Battalion’s efforts to keep abreast
of all the latest improvements in
modem journalism.
BULLETIN
E. L. Williams, former direc
tor of the Engineering Exten
sion service, died yesterday of
cancer.
Funeral services will be at
10 a.m. Thursday at the A&M
Presbyterian church.
Sick for about three months,
Williams resigned June 1 as
head of the Extension service
“because of poor health.”
From New Zealand
Girls Need Aggie Pen-Pals
Some girls in New Zealand want
Aggies for pen-pals.
Miss Mary Yelavich, writing
from Aukland, New Zealand, says
that • she and her friends find it
“both educational and interesting”
to write to overseas pen-friends.
“We would be extremely grateful
if you could fulfil our wish,” she
said.
The girls, who attend St. Mary’s
college in Auckland, range in age
from 16 to 20, but Mary says,
“Should our girls be too young" we
would soon find pen-friends for
your students.”
In the letter, which was address
ed to the president of the college
and came to The Battalion through
Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy,
Mary said she and the other girls
had learned about Texas A&M in
an article in a back issue of The
Saturday Evening Post.
The article, by George Sessions
Perry, was entitled “The Rowdiest
School in the Country,” and ap
peared about two years ago.
In a reply to Mary, Penberthy
said, “We appreciate very much
the warm spirit of friendship indi
cated in your desire to become pen-
friends with some of our students
and I assure you that we will en
courage our students in every way
possible to accept this kind invi
tation.”
Mary’s address is Miss Mary Ye
lavich, 36 Richmond Road, Pon-
sonby, Auckland, New Zealand. She
will contact the other girls at the
college.
MSC
For
ht Is
Hass’
First of Series
Of Weekly Dances
A “Stag ’N Hag” dance, the first of a series of weekly
dances sponsored by the Memorial Student Center, will be
tonight, with boys and girls coming without dates to “get
acquainted.”
The dance tonight, and the other weekly dances, will be
held in a partitioned part of the MSC fountain room, newly-
dubbed “The Hide-A-Way”.
Music for the informal dance tonight will be furnished
by the juke box, and there will be a charge of 25 cents, stag
or drag. The dance will start at 7:30 p.m.
Floor show for tonight’s dance will include the singing
Kelley Sisters of Bryan, and Mary Ellen Fussell of Bryan, a
singer.
Miss Fussell graduated this
year from Stevens college in
Missouri, after majoring in
voice and piano.. Dick Clark
will be the master of ceremonies.
“We’ve got plenty of girls lined
up for the ‘Stag ’N Hag’, but we
want the boys to come too,” said
Mrs. Helen Atterbury, MSC sec
retary.
Each week the theme for the
weekly dance will be different, and
a formal dance will be held once
a month in the ballroom. Gary
Bourgeois is summer chairman for
the activities program, and Miss
Fussell and Reba McDermott are
sub-chairmen fbr the Hide-A-Way
dances.
Anyone who plays a musical in
strument is wanted to play for
floor shows at the future dances,
Mrs. Atterbury said.
“We especially need some one to
play the organ each Sunday after
noon between 4 and 5 p.m. in the
main lobby,” she said.
Next on the MSC summer en
tertainment schedule is a popular
music concert next Tuesday night,
with a Bryan air force band play
ing.
ROTC Camps
Monday for
Four weeks of combat training
in army and air force ROTC
summer camp began June
19-20 for approximately 600 A&M
cadets who will be seniors next
year.
Attendance is required to receive
reserve commissions as second lieu
tenants upon graduation.
A total of 353 cadets are sched
uled for 13 different army installa
tions in all sections of the United
States. The largest numbers have
been ordered to the infantry school
at Fort Benning, Ga., the field Ar
tillery center at Fort Sill, Okla.,
the anti-aircraft artillery school at
Fort Bliss, and the armor camp
at Fort Knox, Ky.
The 265 air force cadets are as
signed to 13 bases in Texas, Ari
zona, Nevada and California. Big
gest percentage of these are in
regular flying categories of pilots
and observers.
Enrollment
Is 1,516
For Summer
Enrollment for the first six-
week summer school term here
is 1,516 students, H. L. Heaton,
registrar, announced Friday.
On the same date last year the
enrollment was 1,538.
There are 1,378 students en
rolled in classes on the cam
pus and 138 are enrolled at
the Junction Adjunct, summer
school camp near Junction.
There are 81 freshmen at
the camp, 27 students taking
civil engineering surveying
and 30 taking field geology.
Speakers Set
For School
Conference
Consultants and speakers
for the school conference here
June 21-23, have been an
nounced by George B. Wilcox,
head of the education and
psychology department. He is sec
retary to the conference and gener
al chairman. Six hundred are ex
pected to attend.
The speakers and consultants in
clude Dr. H. I. Willett, superinten
dent, Richmond, Va., public schools
and president-elect of the Ameri
can Association of School Admin-
istfators; Dr. Jone Franseth, spe
cialist in tural education, U.S. Of
fice of Education, Department of
Health and Education and Welfare,
Washington, D. C.
Dr. Charles Nelson, assistant
Superintendent, Houston public
schools, elementary education; Da
vid Sellars, coordinator of instruc
tion, Ft. Worth public schools; Dr.
A. T. Dyal, pastor, First Presby
terian church, Bay City, Thos. B.
Ro*aey, chairman. State Board of
Education, Tyler.
Team Wins
Judging Meet
Brazos county 4 - H club
members Thursday walked
away with top honors in live
stock judging and second in
poultry and dairy judging at
the close of the annual round-up on
the campus. More than 500 Texas
youths participated in 17 state
wide judging and team demonstra
tions.
Composed of Walter Wilcox,
Donald Barker, Kent Potts, all of
Bryan, and Henry Blazek of
Wheelock, the local livestock team
won first with 1,841 of a possible
2,100 points.
County Agent Wallace Kim
brough was their coach. Potts was
an alternate.
Wilcox and Barker were first
and second high-place individuals
in the entire contest. Howard and
Nolan counties came in second and
third. Twelve teams participated
in this division.
A $100 cash award from the Tex
as Aberdeen Angus association of
Fort Worth goes to the team to
help pay expenses to the National
4-H Livestock Judging contest,
which is held in Chicago in Novem
ber.
Floyd Abbott, Tommy Barker,
Ross Salvaggio, of Bryan, and Dan
Williams of College Station com
posed the second place dairy judg 1 -
ing team. The team racked up
1,354 of a possible 1,500 points.
Abbott was second high place
individual with 454 of a possible
500. Nine teams participated in
this contest, Wheeler county tak
ing first.
Bob Mayfield coached the poul
try team into second place, the
county’s third honor of the day.
Gwinn Thompson, Fred Henry
Schram, Eddie Melasky and’ Billy
Hymen scored 2,075 of a possible
2,400. Guadalupe county took first
in this class and HopkinS county*
third. Ten teams entered this
competition.
Metal awards were made to each
member of the first, second and
third place teams and to first, sec
ond and third place high individu
als.
Brazos Off-Limits
For BAFB Men
The Brazos river has been de
clared off-limits for Bryan air
force base personnel, after ah air
man drowned there.
Airman Robert J. Fortunate
drowned there last month wheri he
attempted to swim across the rivel’.
Bryan AFB’s newspaper, Jet
Blasts, called the river “a treacher
ous stream of water that has claim
ed the lives of many persons ih
this area in times past.”
IN A CIRCLE—The circular foundation for the auditorium of the new A&M Consolidated
high school building is in place, waiting for the arch-girders that will be put over it Wed-
1 nesday.