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Ig Pi ngl. ~g~% jtJtL 1 * JtSattalion /olume 53 20 °.-| Rolf! ^ ^° | years c; l ' ai- y sons, rp | volies' tionof;: ^-he riodicali oui'lmentei bp says, [•. I’ea-1 ceivesr -is ! about 5 last j papers re- few ^eli, r , . ffer, giauiuate 'er- Posi or 1938, [ has suc- Juments, P- :]ky ers j,.., try science and yean of serv- R STORi when he left COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 1954 Price 5 Cents r Takes as PMS& T; ices Myers mas Bryan Reeita! Thomas, a will give a ical and semi- n the Memor- er Sunday as il’s simmer Re- 11 begin at 4:30 lounge. s completed her a mtjiflic at the iana, and plans sr doctorate this n the presenta- fograms. with Dr. Scion- red Heart acad- Ruddph Ganz, Chicago Musical Brano Eisner, f music at the ma. I, an A&M stu- of Mi :s Thomas, ;or for the piano res programs are ry informal basis rpose in mind to over Ian hour of e Center,” said MSCl summer ac- perspns attended cital program. early this month for Europe. His wife and six children went to his permanent home in South Carolina and will join him later at his over seas station. Myers, who graduated from The Citadel in 1930, spent 32 months of Woidd War II in the European and Far East theaters. He was in tegrated into the regular army in 1946 and came to A&M in 1949 as senior instructor in antiaircraft ar tillery. He was named PMS&T in 1951. Offer is a native of Utah and the son of a regular army officer. He entered West Point in 1934 and has been on active duty con tinuously since then. He served at Fort Penning, Ga.; Fort Knox, Ky.; and Fort Custer, Mich., before moving with the Fifth Division to Iceland, Ireland, North Africa and Italy. Following the war Offer was on duty in the Pentagon, Washington, for nearly five years and returned to Italy in 1950 with the military advisoi-y gi’oup at Rome until Au gust 1953. Fpr the past year he has attended the Command and General Staff college at Fort Leav enworth, Kan. II GU Speak I Class nt D:ivid H. Mor- to the graduating yersity of Houston ;he commencement 50 graduating stu- len auditorium. ;hur S. Knapp of il church will give nd benediction. Dinner Honors Dean Barlow Dean of Engineering How ard W. Barlow will be honored tonight at a going-away din ner in the assembly room of the Memorial Student Center. The engineering school fac ulty is giving the dinner for Barlow, who will leave A&M in September to take a new job at Washington State college. The engineering department heads will speak briefly at the dinner. Col. Robert D. Offer New PMS&T Bait To Publish New Student Issue The Battalion will publish a special edition next Thursday for A&M’s new students. The three-section issue will be sent to all persons who have noti fied the Registrar that they in tend to enroll here in September. The issue will also be distribu- Donations Pay In TV for MSC TV is in the MSC now, with funds from several different sources and volunteer labor result ing in one set in operation, one to be operating within a week, and connections for six more. The operating set is a table model in the fountain room, and the other set is a console model, E MSC—Looking over one of the television sets norial Student Center are some of the people re- jjiiifoii their being there. They are (left to right) ferryman, chief engineer for radio station WT- donated time to work on electrical connections; rgJois, MSC summer activities chairman; ano itzen of the electrical engineering department, of the president’s committee on television for the npus. which will be put in the lounge. The sets are connected to two antennas on top of the White coli seum. They are tuned to four channels — stations in Galveston, Houston, Austin, and Temple. J. Wayne Stark, MSC director, said the antennas could be changed to other stations with a minimum of work. Antenna connections for televi sion sets are in the lounge, the social room, the ballroom, the as sembly room, the starlight terrace, room 3-D, and the fountain room. There are two connections in the fountain room, so two sets can. be used there for big events like the world series and football games, Stark said. The two television sets the MSC now has were donated, one by Sears, Roebuck and Company, and one by Jack Finney, member of the A&M system board of direc tors. Funds for the antenna system and other costs came from more than 35 mother’s clubs over the state, individual gifts, a lost and found auction, and the student drive conducted by Charlie Parker. Southwestern Gets Work Contract The Southwestern States Tele phone company, with headquarters in Brownwood, and the Communica tion Workers of America, C.I.O., have signed a new work contract after 14 days of negotiation, C. T. Strickland, general manager of the telephone company, announced to day. Strickland stated the new con tract provided a wage increase as well as several additional fringe benefits. He also expressed ap preciation for the fair and co-op erative attitude of the company employees. This contracrt covers approxi mately 1,000 workers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. ted locally, and to the Battalion’s other regular subscribers. The edition will have from 16 to 20 pages and will cover every facet of the school. One section will be devoted to sports, and the other two will con tain stories on the operation of the school, activities, churches, his tory, and general information for the new student. Complete picture coverage will be included. College Station and Bryan ad vertisers will have a chance to tell the new students what their stores have to offer. Since the special edition will al so be the regular Thursday Battal ion, it will have two “front pages”, one for the new students, and an other for the local news that would normally be in that day’s paper. The regular summer Battalion staff, Editor Harri Baker and Womans Editor Kerstin Ekfelt, will put out the special, assisted by Carl Jobe, assistant manager of student publications, and Jones Ramsey, sports publicity director. Dick Clark and Oscar Garcia are the advertising salesmen for the special edition. Eleven Students Plan IE Tour Eleven A&M industrial engineer ing students will leave Aug. 27 for a tour of industries in the mid west. The tour is sponsored by the Mid-Continent company of Fort Worth. Kenneth Davis is presi dent of the company. The students, who will be sen iors next year, will visit Inter national Harvester, the Ford Motor Car company engine plant, Proctor and Gamble, Anheuser-Busch, Ral ston Purina, General Motors, Mo torola, Lincoln Electric, and others. Cities on the tour include Chi cago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cincin nati, St. Louis, and others. The students will stay in university dormitories. They will return Sept. 17, the day before registration. Strep Throat High On List Strep throat is still the leading ailment in the College Station-Bry- an area, with 4 cases reported in College Station and 22 in Bry an - Other diseases reported in Col lege Station, according to the weekly Bryan-Brazos county health report, wei’e mumps, pneumonia, and polio, one case each. Band Boosters Dance Will Be Tomorrow A&M May Share FOA Contract Probability of the A&M System sharing with Mexico in another $2,000,000 contract of the U. S. Foreign Opera tions administration is fore seen by D. W. Williams, vice chan cellor for agriculture. Already signed is a $1,700,000 agreement with East Pakistan and within the next 60 days System- personnel will go to the University of Dacca. These will be agricul tural, engineering and education specialists to work in the various schools .of the Middle East country. Williams will go to Mexico early in August to pursue the negotia tions with authorities for an FOA contract that will link A&M with Antonio Narro Agricultural college at Saltillo. He will be accompanied by Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head of the hor ticulture department, and A. H. Walker of the Range and Forestry Extension service. The Mexican government has asked for aid in establishment of a system of agricultural services in the State of* Coahuila. These would be patterned after the land- grant system in the United States, providing a college, an experiment station and an extension service much like those operating here. * The proposed contract with the Mexican government, Williams said, will call for a U. S. contribu tion of about $750,000 with Mexico to expend $2 for each $1 of the American grant. Teachers Meet Scheduled Here More than 100 vocational agri culture teachers from all over the state, and teacher trainers from eight colleges are expected to at tend the Conference for Teacher Trainers here Aug. 18-19. Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Agriculture will welcome the group to the campus. Dr. J. W. Griggs, superintendent of schools at Huntsville, and George Hurt, acting state director of vo cational agricultural education, also will address the group. E. V. Walton, head of the agri cultural education department, said the program has been planned to give maximum participation to all members attending the conference. Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M, Texas Technological college and five teachers’ colleges will be rep resented. Walton said. Boogie Busters To Play; Proceeds for Uniforms The A&M Consolidated Band Boosters club is giving a summer dance under the stars tomorrow night for College Station people and anyone else who wants to come, with all proceeds to go to the fund to buy uniforms for CHS’ Tiger band. The dance, which will be in the Grove from 8 to 11 p.m., will feature an international floor show and music by Bud Barlow and the Brazos Bottom Boogie Busters. Master of ceremonies for the floor show will be Capt. Joe Brooks of Bryan air force base. Lyn Byron and her can-can line—Sue Gustafson, Dorothy Burns, Eve Porter, and Sadi Mitchelini—will perform. First Lt. Michael Vaskov, Hall of Fame Honors Aggie 'Jarrin ’fawn ’ John Kimbrough, the “Jar ring’ .Jawn” fullback of the famed 1939-40 A&M football team, has been named to the Football Hall of Fame. Another Texan, former SMU head coach Ray Morrison, was also named in the first selec tions in three years. In all, 40 college football players and coaches were se lected to have their names en shrined in the proposed Hall of Fame. The Hall will be built on the campus of Rutgers university, where the first intercollegiate football game, Rutgers vs. Princeton, was played 85 years ago. Business Wives Set First Dance The Business Wives club will have a dinner and dance Saturday night at Maggie Parker’s. Dinner will be at 8 p.m., and the dancing will start after dinner. This is the first of a proposed series of club dances, with about one every two or three months, said Mrs. Joy Jones, president. Invited to the dance are all busi ness majors and their wives. Res ervations should be called in to Mrs. Cynthia Allen, 4-4919, not later than Friday. Mrs. Jeanette Williams is chair man of the dance committee. Barton Becomes Conservation Man Jack H. Barton, assistant agron omist, with headquarters at Wes laco since 1952, will become soil and water conservation specialist for the Agricultural Extension Service. His headquarters will be at College Station. also from Bryari AFB, will sing, as will Mrs. Andre Clas- ens. Mrs. Clasens’ husband is Bryan AFB’s Belgium liaison officer. A group of local girls will pre sent their own interpretation of the Negro spiritual “Dry Bones.” Singers will be Jenny Gorman, Aileen Gunn, Bonnie Florer, Mary Jo Johnston, Eleanor Butt, Jane Galls, Pearl Smith, Joan Herman, Diane Carroll, Rosilind Eskew and Gete Bean. Taking the parts of the bones will be Jan Allen, Mary Bowland, Peggy Cooke, Pat Crockett, Sue Gustafson, Pat Higgens, Barbara Mason, Sadi Michelini, Jeanne Po sey, Barbara Steger, and Flo Wiz- oreck. The Brazos Bottom Boogie Bust ers is a faculty orchestra organized by Dean of Engineering Howard (Bud) Barlow. It was first start ed in 1946, and made its first ap pearance at Open House day that year. The only two members of tha original group left are Barlow and D. R. Lee, assistant professor in the chemistry department. Almost all of the members of the seven-piece combo have had professional musical experience. Barlow worked his way through Purdue university as a jazz drum mer in the ’20’s, and Lee has play ed accordian with Louie Prima. R. B. Alexander, also with the chemistry department, played in Prima’s band. He plays the sax ophone. Dr. E. H. Kirk, a Bryan doctor, played trumpet for Les Brown’s band. George Reynolds of the oceanography department, who plays bass, spends his spare time giving band instrument lessons to local boys and girls. L. E. Spangler of the horticul ture department, and R. J. Bald- auf of the biology department, pianist, round out the combo. Mrs. Jimmie Howard, wife of Maj. John P. Howard of Bryan AFB, is the singer with the band. She has had several years profes sional experience, and is also di recting the floor show. Mrs. Wesley Smith is president of the Band Boosters club and Dr. Luther Jones is chairman of the finance committee. (See DANCE, Page 2) PRACTICE SESSION — Members of the floor show cast for tomorrow night’s band benefit dance practice at the A&M Consolidated auditorium. They are (left to right) Mrs. Sarah June Goode, accompanist; Joe B. Brooks, master of ceremonies; Michael Vaskov, .singer; and George Reynolds, accompanist.