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h Battalion 9: iVolume 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1954 Price 5 Cents OB ONTRACTS, totaling- $3,300,000 were signed the Washington headquarters of the Foreign Iminlstration linking Washington State Col- University of Punnjab, in West Pakistan, and ith the University of Decca, in East Pakistan. Attendants at the signing were, left to right: W. C. Free man comptroller of A&M; Sir Chaudhry Mohammed Saf- rullah Khan, foreign minister of Pakistan; Governor Har old E. Stassen, director of foreign operations; Dr. C. Clem ent French, president of Washington State College. YBoard Of Education s To Segregate A Year teed ib €6 1. MOREHEAD -mug News as — The State on voted Monday 1 segregation in i for at least an- r board unani- le following reso- Binion, member ) w Half kH nt United States decisions on seg- ic school are not B Board of Educa- of the unanimous ; obligated to ad- dy with all of our rws and policies gregation in our ' stem and to con- hese pi’esent laws such time as they by a duly consti- f this;state. •e, the Texas laws fd then each local tve sufficient time lem .out. mestly hopes that which has been lly by the people the recent pro- gregation by the preme Court may i that the effort tory-solution may ire Kit Unit nces ich ^Dairies er§ ‘§e rimp with the U. S. Service Standard this notice is re- zos County Health e public of dairies issued permits to milk products in ge Station. 1 Grade “A” pas- rd milk products, report, were issued Creamery, College ny, Houston, Texas jmpany, Houston, k Company, Ft. u Dairies, Bryan, Dairies, Houston, the sale of Grade lilk was issued to ^ RE ^ch. all other milk in ge Station is pro be accorded intelligent, sober and dispassionate support by all of our citizens, white and Negro alike.” W. Aster Kirk of Austin, profes sor at Huston-Tillotson College;, presented the National Association for Advancement of Colored Peo ple’s request for Texas authorities to set up a state-wide committee to advise on desegregation in schools. Kirk commended the Texas board for “the work it is doing in th^ field of public education.” The Negro declared that NAACP favors a “statesmanlike, construc tive approach” to desegregation. He did not comment upon the board’s decision to continue segre gation for another year. But Kirk said “we recognize that the responsibility (for handling the problem) largely rests with local boards of education and local trus tees.” The state board, he added, “will to a certain extent set the tone for local boards.” Thomas B. Ramey of Tyler, chairman, said “the board will con sider in due time” Kirk’s request for appointment of a state advisory committee on desegregation. State officials, from Gov. Allan Shivers down, have insisted that abolishing the 100-year-old segre gation system of Texas schools should be handled gradually and managed by local boards. This view will be presented to the Supreme Reds Capture 6 U.S. Soldiers HEIDELBERG, Germany—OT’)— Six United States soldiers and a captain on leave were reported Monday to have been seized by Communist Czechoslovak border police when they strolled too close to the Iron Curtain. West German border police said they had heard unofficially the Communists planned to return the men Tuesday. United States Army headquar ters here would not identify the men nor name the unit to which they were attached. The only in formation the Army would confirm was that: 1. The half-ton weapons carrier truck in which they were driving was found abandoned late Sunday near the Village of Weiden, about fifteen miles from the Czechoslovak border. 2. The men were on leave and were not on border duty. “They weren’t there on business.” 3. The men were definitely miss ing and believed to have been ar rested by the Red border buard^. Court when it hears the question further next fall. The State’s Constitution and laws require racial segregation. Until these are changed, state school officials plan to operate as before. The Legislature will meet next January. Some members feel that nothing will be done then to change the segregation laws, unless the United States Supreme Court has issued its decree. Rep. Jack Fish of Wharton once indicated that he would sponsor a constitutional amendment to abolish public schools. He would substitute a system where segre gation could be maintained tinder a private school system. Governor Shivers and others have expressed opposition to any idea of . abolishing the public schools. (See SEGREGATION, Page 2) R. J. Hildreth Named Assistant In Ag. Economics Roland J. Hildreth has been named assistant professor of agri cultural economics at A&M, effec tive July 1. He comes to A&M from Iowa State College, where for the past two years he has been engaged in teaching and research in farm management. He also has served at Ausburg College and the Uni versity of Minnesota. Mr. Hildreth received his BS and MS degrees at Iowa State College and has taken advanced graduate work toward a doctor’s degree at Iowa State College and the Univer sity of Minnesota. One of his publications dealing with collective bargaining in the meat packing in dustry won a national award. He is a veteran of World War II, married and hds two children. He is a member of the American Farm Economics Association and the American Economics Associa tion. HEADS DEPARTMENT—Dr. Clark L. Allen has been ap pointed professor and head of the economics department at A&M effective July 16. He has been chairman of the eco nomics department at Florida State University since 1949. He succeeds Dr. Walter H. Delaplane, who now is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Semi-Formal Dance Set For Tonight In MSC '§ Urged To Attend A&M’s first dress-up affair of the summer session, a semi-formal dance, will be held tonight at 8:00 o’clock in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Sponsored by the MSC Summer Program Committee, the dance is being held in place of the regular Tuesday night Hide-A-Way shuffle. Music will be provided by the Bryan Air Force Base combo under the direction of Sgt. Bill Coker. Gary Bourgeois, chairman of the Summer Program group, said yesterday that the semi-formal classification does not mean that stags will not be allowed to attend. Stags Welcome “Students and girls need to understand that ordinarily a semi-formal dance would mean only date attendance,” said Bourgeois, “b u t at A&M there is a noticeable lack of girls this sum- m e r. Therefore, we are eoncour- aging attendance by everyone, whether they have a date or not.” Bourgeois em- phasized that married couples are as welcome as anyone, as are persons living in the College Sta- tion-Bryan area. Coats and Ties The Committee urged that de- spite the hot weather, male partici- pants should dress in accord ance with the custom for a semi - formal dance. “The ballroom is air conditioned,” sai<i Mary Ellen Fussell Bour- ” ——■. c A. • v •* Cuero Youth Wins Continental Oil’s A&M Scholarship Arlen C. Cornett, a 1954 gradu ate of Cuero High School, will en ter A&M this fall as a winner of a college scholarship awarded by Continental Oil Company. He is a son of Charles M. Cornett, an operator in Conoco’s production ac tivities near Yorktown, Tej. The Cuero youth is one of ten high school graduates who have been awarded $500 Conoco Schol arships in competition with other sons and daughters of active, re tired or deceased Continental em ployees from 14 states. The Conoco Scholarships may be applied at any accredited college or university for any purpose as sociated with gaining a college ed ucation. They are renewable to cover four years of college, pro viding the winners maintain satis factory grades. Along with the nine other win ners of 1954 Conoco Scholarships, Arlen Cornett was selected on the basis of high school record, char acter, leadership and seriousness of purpose by a committee com prising Dr. William V. Houston, president of the Rice Institute, Houston; Dr. George H. Cross, president of the University of Ok lahoma, Norman; Dr. W. Vander- wilt, president of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden; and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Houston and Washington, Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare in Presj^ dent Eisenhower’s cabinet. In addition to standing near the top of his high school class aca-i demically, Arlen Cornett w a 4 awarded athletic letters in football, basketball, baseball and track, and was active in school journalism and dramatics. At A&M he plana to pre'pare for a career in chemical engineering. ——— ,nr geois, “and coats and Ues will not be uncomfortable.” Some of this area’s best talent has been scheduled for the floor show. Bourgeois said that the Kelley Sisters of Bryan, who ap peared at the “Stag-’n-Hag” dance June 15, will provide vocal enter tainment, along with Mary Ellen Fussell, another Bryan vocalist. Attendance Growing Mrs. Helen Atterbury, MSC sec retary, says that attendance at the Tuesday night dances has been in creasing steadily, and that a large crowd is expected tonight. The Hide-A-Way, located in the Cen ter fountain room, has had to be expanded on occasion to take $&xe of growing attendance. Bourgeois said that there has always been an abundance of girls at the dances., and that boys need not stay away for fear of lack of dancing part ners. Admission to tonight’s dance will be 25c, stag or drag, and cokes will be sold. Individual tables, lighted by candles, will be avail able. BULLETIN Dean H. W. Barlow has re signed as head of the School of Engineering. Official announcement of the resignation was released this afternoon from the office of Chancellor Harrington. Dr. Har rington said Dean Barlow had in formed hint that he was resign ing to accept a position as direc tor of the institute of technology at Washington State College, Pullman, Washington. Barlow is the second A&M of ficial to go to the Washington school in two years. Dean C. C. French, former Dean of the College at A&M, went there two years ago as president of WSC. Weather Today Partly cloudy, with little or no chance of showers in this area. Yesterday’s highest temperature was 100 degrees; today’s lowest, 72 degrees. No Experience Required Batt Invites Girls To Tell Of A&M By THE EDITOR Ever since this rag started com ing out regularly some seventy-odd years back, none other than tfie male influence has been the rule here around the editorial office. A 1 a.m. bull-session this morn ing brought up the subject of all these little fraulines roaming the campus during these summer months, and, the group being made up of aspiring but doubtful jour nalists, the conversation wandered Veterinary Staff Members Study In Atom Bomb City Two staff members of the school of veterinary medicine are attend ing the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu clear Studies in Oak Ridge, Ten nessee, this summer, said W. W. Armistead, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. W. C. Banks of the veter inary bacteriology and hygiene de partment is attending the first ses sion. Dr. Rurel R. Bell of the de partment of veterinary parasitol-’ ogy will attend the second session. Each session lasts four weeks and consists of intensive post grad uate studies in nuclear physics and the use of x-ray and radioactive is otopes in medicine. This course is attended by phy sicians, dentists, veterinarians, bi ologists and physicists from var ious colleges and industrial insti tutions throughout the country. Practically every state and terri tory will be represented, said Dean Armistead, onto women reporters and cplvimhi'' ists. Thus resulted a brainstorm which might bring to Batt readers an in dication of the capabilities of these rare figures on the campus. Be sides that, it’ll help fill up space and we guys up here can go home earlier on Monday and Wednesday nights. So, we’re putting out a call for women reporters and columnists from among the ranks of the Ag gie co-eds. Can any of you write, can you proofread copy, can you just sit around the office and look pretty? If you meet any of these qualifications, then the Batt has a place for you. We give press cards, we give by-lines, we give references, although no one has ever asked us for any yet. It appears, from the way that many of these lassies are knocking thunder out of the grade curve in a lot of classes, that the women are a definite influence on life around A&M these days. Conse quently, they should take advan tage of an opportunity to report on the school as they see it. In past summers there has never been a woman reporter, other than the society editor, on the Battalion. So here’s where we throw tradition back under the obituary desk and invite the gals to take a bit of space in the paper and show what they can do from the news angle. Girls interested in doing soine spare time news writing or column- izing may drop by the Batt office any afternoon, Monday through Friday, and look the situation over. P.S. We could use some of you guys too, especially ^portg writers.