Battalion
Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954
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itive Committee
ges Punishment
M students who were suspended in May for
of Ihe Tonkawa Tribe, a secret fraternity,
o school now.
ive fcommittee of the academic council has
indefinite suspension” punishment, allowing
?r scliool Sept. 1, said President David H.
s release. 4
ill be on conduct
ley are readmit-
MeniW. L. Pen-
st also sign an
’oomlvith anoth-
ip TT’s and they
ed to hold any
ed campus posi-
Both the student
ist agree to these
tsi Dismissal
ply with any of
1 _ ans dismissal for
^aerthy said,
committee took
the Students “to
due to difference
orce regulations
;s under suspen-
or
is Differ
committee, Mor-
en notified that
igulations do not
inder suspension
camp or receive
le those enrolled
4 ve been permitted
and have been
air force ROTC
those suspended
subject to draft
ng punished for
would have been
^ e release contin-
Players
make no further
ersonal interview,
icluding members
ior and sophomore
covered in an in
reek before school
(were later proved
the football team.
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jects
em board of dir-
niversity of Texas
s discussed joint
two 'schools at a
turday morning,
discussion was co-
en A&M’s ocean-
ient and UT’s mar-
artment. An ex-
ities was worked
planning to use
oratory at Galves-
ning to use A&M’s
. A. Jakkula.
mterprises of the
is were also dis-
Unofficial Count
Shows Enrollment
Official registrar’s figures
on yesterday’s enrollment are
not yet available, but an un
official housing office count
made at 11:30 a.m. showed
more than 1,000 students in
college housing.
The housing office’s count is
usually below the final count,
since many students will not
be living in college housing.
About 1,000 students were
expected by the registrar for
this session of summer school.
,An official total will be releas
ed next week.
Thursday is the last day to
register, and Friday is the last
day for making schedule
changes.
Societies OKed
For Professions
The board, of directors has auth
orized the establishment at A&M
of national professional societies.
Previously, only national scholastic
societies were allowed at the
school.
President David H. Morgan,
speaking to board, said profession
al societies will provide an “op
portunity for our students to par
ticipate in the activities of their
future professions.”
Some students go elsewhere be
cause A&M does not have these
societies, Morgan said. He said
journalism and industrial arts
were particularly interested in
starting chapters of their profes
sional societies here.
Another Dance Set
For MSC Tonight
Tonight the Memorial Student
Center summer activities program
will again present the now well-
established Hide-A-Way Dance in
the Fountain Room.
The dance, which is to start at
8 p.m. will feature the music of
Bill Coker and his combo.
“For the benefit of new students,
this series of dances which was
started this summer has gained
great popularity among the local
girls and especially the Aggies,”
said Gary Bourgeois, chairman of
the MSC summer activities pro
gram.
w Approved
Staff Mem bers
lb
t&M system’s non-
jyesBivill get $120-
living salary in
board of directors
action Friday, put-
a legislative ruling,
effective Sept. 1.
re raised teaching
r last regular ses-
n brings non-teach-
a par with the oth-
BE
5th
•'ll affect most staff
ding almost all sec-
vill not get the in-
ose with line item
high-ranking admin-
'), those paid from
teaching salaries only, and those
receiving more than $10,000 a year.
Employes of auxiliary enter
prises, such as the Memorial Stu
dent Center, the Exchange store,
and the A&M Press, will receive
the increase if their enterprise has
enough money to pay it.
Persons on modified service will
also get the increase, in proportion
to the amount of time they work.
That is, a person on half service
will get half the increase, and so
on.
If any person eligible to receive
this increase has already received
a salary increase of more than $120
for the coming year, he will not
receive this increase.
FRAMEWORK—The new circular auditorium for A&M
consolidated high school is constructed around this wood,
concrete and steel framework. The walls, or roof, de
pending on the angle, have been put on the building, and it
and the rest of the new school buildings are expected to be
ready by September.
Board Approves
Construction Work
The system board of directors
approved Friday more than $400,-
000 worth of construction for
A&M, including repairs on the Me
morial Student Center and air con
ditioning for the library.
The board voted $30,000 for re
pairs, alterations, and purchase of
equipment for the MSC.
Another $275,000 was authorized
for maintenance, repair, and minor
alterations to buildings, including
hir conditioning of the library.
A contract for $36,961.75 was
approved for sidewalks, curbs, gut
ters, and parking facilities. The
improvements will be made in the
Academic’ building area, around
the places left vacant by tearing
down Ross and Pfeiffer halls. R.
B. Butler Co. of Bryan got the con
tract.
Repairs and renovations to the
Exchange store will cost $23,660,
Dr. Potts Offers
Pastures Course
R. C. Potts of the agronomy de
partment will offer a pastures
short course Aug. 2-6 in the Cy
press high school building in Har
ris county.
Classes in the course will meet
from 7 to 11 p.m. daily, according
to Harris county agent Dan Clin
ton, who was a member of the
group which planned the course.
Not more than 30 persons may
register for the course, in accord
ance with the college’s off-campus
short course program of adult ed
ucation.
Certificates will be awarded to
those who successfully complete
the short course.
Potts said a part of the labora
tory work will include visiting sev
eral farms and ranches in the area,
in addition to the experiment sta
tions.
and a hydraulic freight elevator
contract for $5,199 was approved.
The board confirmed a $38,766
contract for reflooring the dining
rooms and lounges of Sbisa hall,
work which is now under way.
The Ray Baldwin Tile Co. of Fort
Worth has the contract.
Painting of six dormitories was
approved, at $29,975. Painted will
be the exteriors of Legett, Hart,
Puryear, and Law halls, and the
interiors of Milner, Legett, Mitch
ell, and Puryear halls.
Some of this work has also start
ed, with G. S. Falco and Company
of Houston holding the contract.
The board also authorized the
chancellor to take bids on a poul
try center feed building, and im
provements at the college planta
tion.
Directors
Wrangle Over
6.7 Acres
After coolly authorizing
more than $400,000 worth of
appropriations for Texas A&M
alone, the system board of
directors Friday got into an
argument over whether or not
they should give away 6.7 ac
res of land.
The land was to be trans
ferred from the Agricultural
Experiment station to the
Hudson independent school dis
trict in Angelina county.
“Will we keep the mineral
rights?” asked one board
member.
“Is this their idea or ours?”
asked another.
“How much Is the land
worth?” said another.
“Have we ever done any
thing like this before?” asked
another.
They finally decided to give
the school the land, and now
the school has a new play
ground, courtesy of the Texas
A&M system.
Property Damage
Means Suspension
Any student of either A&M
or the University of Texas
who does property damage on
the other school’s campus will
be suspended for one semester.
The A&M system board of
directors and the UT board of
regents unanimously approved
a joint resolution Friday call
ing for a minimum punishment
of one-semester suspension for
any student of either school
who goes to the other campus
“with the intent of painting
or otherwise defacing statues
or buildings or committing
any other depredation.”
The boards said they “view
with concern the growing ten
dency of the students of the
two schools” to deface the
property of the rival school.
During the week before the
traditional A&M-TU Thanks
giving game last year, several
cases of property damage and
personal abuse by students
from both schools were re
ported.
Morgans Leave
For Va ca tion
President and Mrs. David H.
Morgan and their two daughters,
Ann and Dee, leave today for
Mexico.
The 10-day vacation will include
a stay at Mexico City. They will
retrun next Wednesday.
College Officials
Reluctant to Talk
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Summer Editor #
The system board of directors Friday made military
training- optional at A&M, and the college officials aren’t talk
ing about it. ,
All students will have the option of either taking mili
tary training or being civilian students, effective Sept. 1.
Those who take military will live in the corps of cadets.
All four classes of military students will be housed in
the same military organizations, bringing into effect the
consolidation move proposed at the spring board meeting.
A third option was also authorized by the board: the
president of the college, on the recommendation of the aca
demic council and approval of the chancellor, can allow stu-
4-dents to enroll for military train-
Brayton Gets
High Praise
From Firemen
Col. H. R. Brayton of the
Engineering Extension serv
ice was given high praise by
firemen - trainees attend-
ing the Firemen’s Training
school here last week. Colonel
Brayton is founder and director
of the 25-year old school.
At the silver anniversary ban
quet of the school Friday, Bray-
ton’s work in organizing the school
in 1929 was lauded by speakers.
Certificates were awarded eight
men for having served as instruc
tors at the school for five consec
utive years. They were A. L. Cart-
right, Bryan; Lester Gross, Austin;
Chief O. C. Martin, Dallas; Chief
Charlie Meadows, Odessa; Capt. D.
D. Ruempel, Fort Sam Houston; Ed
Bartel, Galveston; Dan Butler,
Houston and Clyde W. Smith of
Waco.
E. L. Parker of Orange was
awarded a certificate of apprecia
tion for his past services as pres
ident of the Texas Fire Marshal’s
association.
L. R. McLoughlin of Georgetown
was named winner of a contest in
jvhich fire marshals contributed
suggestions for improving their
work.
More than 1,000 firemen from
over Texas and other states and
Mexico, attended the school.
Electricity Study
Planned for A&M
An electrical engineer has been
hired to make a study and report
on “how best to meet the growing
demand for electricity” at A&M.
The engineer, Carl C. Cox ’17,
a consulting electrical engineer
from Amarillo, will make a one
year study of the local situation,
plant installation, forecast of de
mand, and an estimate of $300,000
of facilities.
Cost of the study will be $3,000,
which was approved by the board
of directors Friday.
3 Faculty, 1 Staff
Four Promotions Announced
Promotions of three A&M fac- leum engineering department. He an LL B from Dixie university,
ulty members and one staff mem- succeeds Albert Stevens, who re- Summerville Law school, Dallas,
ber were confirmed by the board signed to enter private business. He came to A&M in 1940 as asso-
of directors Friday. Whiting came to A&M in 1946 as ciate professor of chemistry. In
Promoted were Dr. Ralph W. an associate professor in the petro- 1947 he was made professor of ed-
Steen, Robert L. Whiting, Dr. Gra- leum engineering department. He ucation.
dy P. Parker and H. D. Bearden, has his BS and MS degrees in pe- Bearden
The promotions were made by troleum engineering from the Uni- H. D. Bearden has been pro-
President David H. Morgan and versity of Texas. A registered moted to acting vice director of
Chancellor M. T. Harrington. professional engineer, Whiting is the Engineering Extension service.
Steen the author of many technical pub- He succeeds E. L. Williams, who
Steen has been promoted to pro- lications and holds membership in died recently. Bearden came to
moted to professor and head of Tau Beta Pi, AIME, Sigma Xi and A&M in 1943 to join the then In-
the history department, effective Pi Epsilon. dustrial Extension service, of
Sept. 1. He succeeds Dr. S. R. Parker which Williams was head.
Gammon, who goes on modified Parker has been promoted to He was a field instructor in su-
service Sept. 1. Steen has been professor and head of the educa- pervisor training and spent a great
with A&M since 1935. He is a tion and psychology department deal of his time at war production
graduate of McMurry college and effective Sept. 1. He succeeds Dr. plants in the Dallas area. He join-
has his PhD degree from the Uni- George B. Wilcox who goes on ed the State Department of Edu-
versity of Texas. He is the author modified service Sept. 1. Parker cation as it was then known in
of several histories of Texas and has a BA degree, chemistry and 1944 and returned to A&M in 1947
many historical articles. education, North Texas State as assistant to Williams. He has
Whiting Teachers’ college; MA degree, edu- his BA degree from Texas Tech
Whiting has been promoted to cation, SMU; Ed D, education and and MA degrees from the Univer-
professor and head of the petro- chemistry. University of Texas and sity of Texas. ,
ing without living in the corps of
cadets. The option has not been
put into effect.
This third option would place
students on the same basis as
those taking military training at
civilian colleges, if it is adopted.
The new regulations were rec
ommended by the Academic coun
cil, governing body of the school,
composed of the heads of depart
ments. , i
All students in the corps' of ca
dets will wear the uniform all the
time, the regulation states.
The corps is to function, “on
strict military lines” under yules
to be established by the staff of
the college and approved by the
Academic council.
No one in the top level of the
college is commenting on either the
board action or the possible effect
on the school or the cadet corps.
Their attitude is summed up by
Col. Joe Davis, commandant: “The
board has made the decision, and
that’s it.”
Davis said the plans for next
year’s corps organization were
framed to allow them to work if
consolidation was approved, so
“we won’t have any trouble there.”
When asked what effept be
thought the new plan would, have
on the corps of cadets, Davis said
“No comment”.
When asked what he thought of
the third option authorized by the
board, Davis said “No comment.”
“Any statement I have to make
will come through Henderson
Shuffler’s office,” Davis said.
Shuffler is the system director of
information.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington
would not comment on discussion
during the board’s 11-hour-long
executive, or closed, sessions. Har
rington was present during part of
the closed meetings.
“They discussed coeducation but
no action was taken,” he said. He
also said the board members “ask
ed about” the TT’s, a secret fra
ternity uncovered on the campus in
May.
“I believe the new plan will help
the corps of cadets,” Harrington
said. “It will make in the corps
voluntary.”
President David H. Morgan said
the Academic council recommend
ed the action to “open the colleg^
to boys who want to take one of
our unique land-grant college but
who do not want to be' in the
corps.”
“I have not changed my opinion
of the corps,” he said. “It is a
wonderful body for leadership
(See MILITARY, Page 3)
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Partially cloudy weather is ex
pected today with scattered thun
dershowers late this afternoon and
winds from the south at 15 m.p.h.
Low last night was 76, high expec
ted today about 99.