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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1954
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i’idiY'Q- —The State Board of Insurance Commissioners
,pl e ^jDendbd the certificate of General American Cas-
preferred an Antonio stock, fire and casualty insurance
l be held red th e attorney general to begin the biggest
1 church ijase in history.
There willj ★ ★ *
Jear, k^qalPA, Honduras — Guatamala urgently
m ioTl ie ighbor country last night to help stop a re-
ns clement of exiled anti-Communist forces to the
T a ven border. There the anti-Reds have been re-
?ic.” mbiing for a possible attock against Guata-
purpost tinged government,
he com® ★ A ★
t in great •gtON—President Eisenhower said yesterday
icentrating on the big problems of the present
, lie E Tans casting his mind forward to running for
in 1956.
uthne,
up, is a p
n-esent
Choir c T^t the possibility of continuing the Geneva
perforrrioohpia in the light of new cease-fire proposals
k Philhatna’s Premier Chou En-lai and strong French
of the We,
e is Colt:
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VA— The United States and Britain consider-
ainst breaking off negotiations.
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k ilGTON—A federal court jury yesterday con-
■Vgjjuerto Rican fanatics of assault, three with in-
i their March 1 gunfire attack on the House of
rk
r es.
option
dooor
^anada f
aent.
a ring W
the thii
laboratoi
: control
one chili
—-he A&M Methodist
A iir friends are in-
iption at the home
Ran Boswell, 1106
rJ] Ai,from 4:30 to 6:30
* * ■'*‘ ine 20, to welcome
arles Wrs. Nolan R. Vance
rted re n his reassignment
noon af: - r a s pastor of the
unable was reappointed
rchard nshop.
ide May! at the reception
ment in v. and Mrs. Robert
retired: has i-ecently been
egan teiew director of the
i assistsdon, succeeding the
a full need.
;d from * reception are offi-
Mll preferch. These include
after; Fred Benson, Mr.
ollege. Leighton, Mr. and
•veil, "Mr. and Mrs.
Sunday
Vances
Va
nii'idge May
Students
pi nnrp^s bridge being con-
-! Austin Bridge Co.
iiH 1' no ^ read y ^ or
* ents in the fall.
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ion cClain, Brazos coun-
ngineer, who was
gust 111 A&M in 1948, said
. rising of the Brazos
1 me l y ec ^, construction.
M °“ 1 located six miles
ye Station on farm
r regU-ing built at a cost
for otfe
engineer in charge,
i. Call-teen men are being
Llilding oject by the Austin
i that from two to
ippoi# tlie state highway
mkyoii 3 also on duty.
R. P. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
McGee, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Brown, and Dr. and Mrs. Robert
R. Shrode.
Invitations are being extended
only through the press. Members
and friends are cordially invited
to call during the tea hours, church
officials said.
MSC Plans Bigger
Dance Next Week
The Memorial Student Center
thinks Tuesday’s “Stag ’N Hag”
dance was so successful that they
are planning for a bigger and
better one next Tuesday.
Following what they termed a
“very successful” dance Tuesday
night, Mrs. Helen Atterbury, MSC
secretary, and Gary Bourgeous,
summer activities chairman, are
busily preparing more room for
next weeks “Sock Hop.”
Mrs. Atterbury said that she
was “greatly impressed” with the
turn-out for Tuesday night’s dance,
and that she hopes attendance will
be as good at all weekly dances.
She said about 175 boys and
girls were present for the first
“Hide-a-way” dance. Because of
student interest in the dances,
plans have been made to use the
entire fountain room and a portion
of the hall if necessary, she said.
Those attending next Tuesday
night’s dance will come shoeless,
next week’s “Sock Hop.”
Mrs. Atterbury urge's everyone
to come out, “stags, daters, and
married couples alike.” Starting
time will be 8 p.m.
ormer Student Named
SJ of II .President
NEW PRESIDENT—Lt. Gen. Bruce accepts a plaque from
Temple Mayor Strasburger. A portion of highway 81, near
Temple, was named “General Bruce Drive” in honor of the
Aggie-ex.
2 8 High
Gridders
School
Pick. A&M
Twenty-eight high school ath
letes have announced that they
will attend A&M next year, in
cluding the top boys from Texas
and Louisiana.
Not all have signed letters of
intent for A&M, a conference rule
that would prohibit them from at
tending any other school in the
Southwest conference, but all have
indicated that they want to be
here.
The top Texas boys are Kenneth
Hall, guard from Sugarland, and
Ed Dudley, back from Pampa.
John Crowe, a back from Spring
Hill, La., is the top Louisiana boy.
Players Listed
Others, their positions in high
school, and their home towns, are
as follows:
Gary Martin, center, Orange;
Gerald Hiler, center. Barbers Hill;
Ray Morgan, tackle. Wink; Nor-
bert Miller, center. Port Neches;
Buddy Oujesky, guard. North Side,
Fort Worth; Paul Lillard, guard,
Jacksboro; Phil Beeson, tackle-
guard, Woodrow Wilson, Dallas;
Joe Bright, end, Lamar, Houston;
Bob Conrad, back, Clifton; Bill
Board Will Meet
July 16 in Austin
The A&M system board of
directors will meet in Austin
July 16.
No definite agenda is set
yet, said R. Henderson Shuff
ler, system director of infor
mation.
At its last meeting, the
board indicated that it would
report on the new organiza
tion of the A&M cadet corps
at this meeting.
The new organization in
cludes having. freshmen living
with each military unit.
Dendy, back, Breckenridge; Nolan
Hutchinson, back-end, Huntsville;
Johnny Jones, back, Lamesa; Fred
Maples, end, North Side, Fort
Worth; Norman Noble, guard,
Breckenridge; Jim Scroggins,
tackle, Beaumont; Clint Wratislaw,
back-end, Palacious.
More Players
Jim Wright, back, Edinburg;
Jim Parker, tackle, Ballinger;
Ralph Patterson, tackle, Conroe;
Carlos Esquival, back, Edinburg;
James Langston, guard, Texas
City; Jimmy Pace, tackle, Jasper;
Pat Patrick, back, Winsboro;
Dickey Sorrels, end, Gilmer.
FSA Board
Will Meet
June 25
The executive board of the
Association of Former Stu-<
dents will meet June 25, 26
md 27 at Port Aransas.
The board will be guest of
the Humble Pipe Line company at
their summer recreation camp.
Friday night, June 25, the board
will be guest of the Corpus Christi
A&M club at a dinner.
The board will discuss:
1. The campus chapel, which is
the project of the current develop
ment fund.
2. A personal solicitation pro
gram among the former students
throughout the nation to be con
ducted this fall.
3. Plans for an August tour of
the A&M clubs in Texas.
4. The organization of the as
sociation’s committees.
5. Dates of the fall meeting of
the council of th« association.
Gen. A. D. Bruce
Gets Position
An A&M former student has been named president of
Texas’ second largest school—the University of Houston.
The man, Lt. Gen. A. D. Bruce ’16, was named Tuesday
by the university’s board of regents. He will head the more
than 500 faculty members and 13,000 students of the school.
Bruce, who is now commandant of the Armed Forces
college in Norfolk, Va., was second-in-command of the corps
of cadets while at A&M. He held the rank of captain and
adjutant, “the highest ranking captain on the campus,” ac
cording to the 1916 A&M yearbook. The corps of cadets was
organized as a regiment then.
A dairy husbandry major while here, Bruce was a dairy
department student assistant^
and assistant editor of The
Battalion.
The yearbook called him
“A. D., that military man.”
“I’ll be very happy to get back
to Texas,” he said when he was
notified of his appointment to the
university. “I have always con
sidered Texas not only my home
but my legal residence as well.”
He succeeds C. F. McElhinney,
vice-president and business man
ager, who has been president since
Dr. W. W. Kemmerer resigned last
year.
The chairman of the university
committee that made recommenda
tions for th© new president. Col.
W. B. Bates, called Bruce “the
top educator in the armed forces.”
“While he has not had any ad
ministrative experience on an aca
demic campus, he is a graduate of
practically every school of the
armed forces,” Bates said.
Bruce will retire from the army
July 31, and take oyer at the uni
versity about September 1.
Bruce entered the army as a
second lieutenant in June, 1917. In
World War I, he served in all
ranks to lieutenant colonel and
later attended the infantry school,
the command and general staff
college and the Army War College
and the Navy War College.
In 1941, he organized, built and
administered the tank destroyer
center at Fort Hood and while
there introduced several methods
of instruction in training later
adopted by the entire Army.
Among his decorations are the
Distinguished Service Cross, the
Distinguished Service Medal with
the Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy
Distinguished Service Medal, the
Legion of Merit, the Purple Heart
and the Air Medal with several
ribbons.
Night Operation
Wakes Husband
Betty Jo Hennard woke up her
husband, pre-vet student Tommie
A. Hennard jr., at 3 a.m. Tuesday,
and a hurried trip to Bryan hos
pital followed.
Appendicitis was the verdict and
Dr. Joseph Cox operated at 1 p.m.
that day.
Betty Jo is getting along well
and expects to be back home in
College View in three or four days,
said Hennard.
Monday Set
For Budget
Hearings
Hearings on the proposed
1954-55 city budget for College
Station will be held at the city
hall at 7:30 p.m. Monday, June
21, Ran Boswell, city man
ager, said.
Proposed expenditures by
city agencies during the com
ing year are $227,583.50, as
compared with an estimated
$223,206-92 during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1954, an
increase of $4,376.50.
Revenues during the 1954-55
fiscal year are expected to be
$236,369.40, i n comparison
with $228,878.38 during the
previous period, a revenue in
crease of $7,491.02.
Texas Aggie
Published
Next Month
The Texas Aggie, the former
students’ publication, will be out
the first of next month.
Among the feature articles will
be one ©n Lt. Gen. A. D. Bruce ’16,
who was the first commander of
Ft. Hood. Highway 81 going
through Temple has been dedicated
to him, called the General Bruce
Drive. Bruce is the new president
df the University of Houston.
Another article will be on Maj.
Gen. P. W. Clarkson ’15, who is
in charge of joint task force seven,
conducting the hydrogen bomb
tests in the Pacific.
There will be a story on Don
Clinton ’21, Houston county agri
cultural agent, who was a “Titled
Texan” in the Houston Post one
week.
James E. Rutter ’32, a former
Lt. Colonel in the infantry in
charge of a Ranger group, whose
picture appeared on the cover of
the June 11 issue of Colliers, will
also be featured in the Aggie.
Other articles are on DeWitt C.
Greer ’23, head of the state high
way department, who is going to
Europe to teach American high
way construction; and on an Aggie
ring that was lost and found.
The Aggie will also have a list
of 28 high school football players
that will be coming to A&M next
fall.
News Briefs
A JOB as staff nurse at the
Bryan air force base hospital ‘is
open. Applicants can get more in
formation from the board of civil
service examiners at BAFB.
* *
FORMER STUDENT Herman
Hollaway jr., an army first lieu
tenant, is serving as an aviator
with the second infantry division
in Korea. His wife, Frances, is
now living in Gonzales.
* * *
FIRST LIEUTENANT Bruce
Miller, an A&M former student,
recently arrived on Okinawa with
the 29th regimental combat team.
He is from Brady. His wife, Eliz-
* * *
RETURNING to the United
States after serving in Hawaii is
Lt. Col. Fred A. Pierce Jr., an
A&M former student. He was
assistant deputy chief of staff for
civilian components at pacific army
headquarters. His home is Luling.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. T. E. Ryan of
College Station are spending their
vacation at the Flying L branch
near Bandera.
* * *
THE MEMORIAL Student Cen
ter Filrrj. society will show “An
thony Adverse” tonight as a part
of the summer film series. The
show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the
MSC ballroom.
SHINE ’EM UP!
DES MOINES— i/P) —Policeman
Cordon Cota carries a bottle of
window cleaner in the truck he
drives for the police department.
When he sees a stop sign that’s
hard to read because of dirt, he
stops and shines it up.
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rf i**vices Held for E. L. Williams
vices were held at of the beet-known men in his field, settwice was added to the depart- ses on an extension basis in 1929
for E. L. Williams, His death brought to an end one ment, with Williams as its head, and its first “course on wheels”, an
of the most colorful careers in In 1948 the extension work had extensive field course, in 1929.
Erector of the Engi-
ision service. Wil-
ondav after, a pro-
He was 61.
timed tt! Anderson conduct-
jftftos»*3 a t the A&M Pres-
ch, and a Masonic
FAS d at the College Sta-
95 am, h
American collegiate circles.
As a 15-year-oid factory worker,
Ed Williams began to dream of
becoming a manual training teach
er. At 16 he quit the factory to
return to high school. Seven years
later he graduated from an unac-
grown until it was organized as National recognition of his work
the Texas Engineering Extension included his election in 1946 as
service, headed by Ed Williams, president of the National Associa-
Since its organization the Exten- tion of Industrial Teacher-Train-
sion service has trained an average ers and in 1949 as president of the
of 10,000 Texans annually for work American Vocational association,
in industry and municipal jobs He has also held high offices in
through extension classes held the Texas State Teachers’ asso-
throughout the state. ciation and the Texas Vocational
While he was building his de- association,
partment into a major statewide In 1951 and 1952 he was given
credited manual training normal
JTOJV d been in 111 health and began teaching. It took him
j pm, jponths, and retired 10 more years, sandwiching night
.insicBi service June 1. classes, extension courses and sum-
yed ‘by his wife and mer classes in between jobs, to get service organization, Ed Williams leave by the A&M system to as-
F a daughter, Mrs. his first college degree and anoth- had developed many new and sue- sist the U. S. Bureau of Mines in
) am,.
)RTE
am, 1:1 i
iese advffi
pmatto
jgan (if Texarkana, er five to acquire his MS.
Uiams jr., command- In the meantime he pioneered in-
an artillery unit at dustrial vocational teaching in
Washington. Michigan and Pennsylvania before
with Texas A&M coming to Texas in 1925 to head
|/illihms was one of A&M’s industrial education depart-
i industrial vocation- ment.
cessful approaches to the problems reorganization of its educational
of training Texas’ vocational teach- program, conducting and super-
ers and improving the efficiency of vising training programs for the
its industrial workers. Bureau’s instructors in its eight
‘Course on Wheels’ regional fields.
He launched the college’s first Born 1893
extension courses for college cred- Edward Lafayette Williams was
m America, and one In 1940 the Industrial Extension it in 1926, its first graduate cour- bom at Sherman City, Michigan,
April 9, 1893. From 1899 to 1915
his home was in Muskegon, a man
ufacturing and port city on Lake
Michigan.
He went into the Army in World
War I, in July, 1918. He was in
officers training camp, three weeks r
from a commission in the Artil
lery, when the war ended. In 1919,
sortly after the passage of the
Smith-Hughes act William started
the first vocational drafting class
in Pennsylvania at McKeesport.
In 1922 he went to Braddock,
Pennsylvania, as director of voca
tional education and built a voca
tional program in the schools to
serve the industries of the Pitts
burgh area. He remained in Brad-
dock until he came to Texas in
1925.
‘Hit-and-Run’ Education
Ed Williams’ undergraduate col-
(See WILLIAMS, Page 2)
E. L. Williams
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