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Battalion Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS; TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1954 Price 5 Cents 'ics wm lio m - ■ l iii [0 a graduate bdustrial educa- arly yesterday lulbar p°‘ 10 in a r [ices w** De I in Bur- •ap. Iii had Large Vote Anticipated For Saturday Primary Agreement Reached On FOA Contract and ' Harsh, "him. M al>1 ame k ,nd said Blun tating p° llu 1 do t th ^,, m ■ FROM Guion’s if. i W ALL TO WALL—Guion Hall Manager Tom Puddy (lower left) looks up at new CinemaScope screen. The screen is 39 by 16 feet, compared to the old i 14 by 19 f( anani Pudd >rp it. It is part of a $2,500 installation that includes CinemaScope’s 'he new installation will be completed by the time school starts, and s to install stereophonic sound before the end of the year. me, lation and ireathing. ) hospital ^ iron lung- pat 8 a.m- polio, " the brai News Briefs Monday at half-n ALL STUDENTS attending the liege under the Korean G.I. Bill ast complete a monthly certifica- >n in the veterans advisor’s of- ■e in Goodwin hall before leaving KRED R. RRISON of the horti- ilture department and Mrs. Bri- Ilian Students Ha\ e Council the pun students will h remment when Students counci bromote unity of Bents, to encourag* lipation in student ac I to encourage close civilian th he representatives from the Stu dent Life committee by a majority vote of all the councilmen. The floor repi’esentatives and councilmen are responsible for hearing the complaints and sug gestions from the students living etween civilian and j on their floor or represented area nts.” and carry these complaints and jil will be organize ! suggestions to the Council meet- representatives from ings. The council has three spon- living area. sors—Robert Murray, W. G. Brea- itories, Milner, Leg- I zeale and Bennie Zinn. hell, will have a rep- The Civilian Student council has rom each of their four no relation to the Student Senate except when problems or sugges- have a representa- bons arise pertaining to the corp e second and third an d civilian body. Then the coun cil and Senate will work together. of its two sections Psentative responsible first, floors. i Pm-year and part of have a representative ramps. College View [eight representatives, eauh of its eight rows; ouses will have one, iy students will have one. ncil organization will con- len: one from each of in dormitories, two from fiew, one from the Pro- 1 and one from the Day Also the three civilian ipvesentatives to the Stu- committee will serve on |ons for the representa- hncil will be before the (tober. The dormitory house master’s are re- br conducting elections |o»i' representatives and ®n of their respective The chairman of the be elected from the son have returned from a two-week vacation trip through the South and East. They were accompanied by their son, Fred .jr., and Dennis Floyd, son of A&M basketball coach John Floyd. * * * THE B&CU warehouse is closed until Sept. 1 for inventory. The warehouse closes each year at this time for the 11-day inventory. * * * FORMER STUDENT Jack Bry ant ’53, has graduated from basic jet pilot school at Bryan air force base and has been awarded his wings and second lieutenant’s com mission. He is from Mertzen. 1 IK * * JOHN A. KINCANNON, instruc tor in the mathematics department, has been made an assistant profes sor in the agricultural economics and sociology department. * * * HUBERT C. MOHR, assistant professor in the horticulture de partment has been granted leave from Oct. 26 until Dec. 16. to do graduate work at the University of Minnesota. * * * CLARENCE E. WATSON, in structor in the agronomy depart ment, accepted a position with the New Mexico A&M College, effec tive July 31. TYRUS R. TIMM, head of the agricultural economics and sociol ogy department, and John G. Mc- Neely presented papers at the meeting of the American Farm Economics association at State College, Pa., Aug. 23-25. * * * R. L. SKRABANEK, of the ag ricultural economics and sociology department, will present a paper during the joint meeting of the American Sociological society and the Rural Sociological society at Urbana, Ill. Sept. 6-10. * * * W. E. BRILES, of the poultry husbandry department, will pre sent a paper at the annual meeting of the Genetics Society of America at Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 4-9. Complete agreement has been reached on all points of a $2,000,000 contract of the U. S. Foreign Operations ad ministration, to be shared by the A&M System and Mexico, and the contract will probably be sign ed within a month. D. W. Williams, vice chancellor for agriculture; Dr. Guy W. Adri- ance, head of the horticulture de partment; and A. H. Walker of the range and forestry extension ser vice were met by Dr. Ross Moore, FOA representative, and his two assistants in Saltillo last week to complete negotiations on the con tract. The president of Antonio Narro Agricultural college of Saltillo, who was in South America at the time of Williams’ visit, will come to A&M in the near future to make final arrangements. Under the terms of the contract the A&M System will send several staff members to Mexico’s state of Coahuila for four to five years to aid in getting the program under way. A&M will also help choose the Mexican personnel who will permanently staff the program. The program will set up an or ganization similar to the A&M Sys tem which consists of an agricul tural college, an experiment sta tion. and an extension service. Hot Campaign Credited; 479 Absentee Votes Cast The hottest governor’s race since the mud-slinging days of Ma Ferguson and Felix Robertson is stirring up interest among usually apathetic Texas voters, including those in Brazos county. Already 479 absentee ballots have been cast in this county, far more than were cast in the first primary July 24, This figure, said Cliff Carter, Democratic county chair man, should mean heavy voting at the polls Saturday. Today is the last day for absentee voting. Ballots may be cast at the county clerk’s office before 5 p.m. Ballots sent in by mail will be counted if they are postmarked before midnight tonight. + Both candidates for gov ernor are still heatedly cam paigning. One, Ralph Yar borough, will speak in Bryan at 10 a.m. tomorrow on thi corner of 26th and Main streets. ‘Tigerlands" Arrive For Consolidated Theye’re here! A&M Consolidated high school’s annuals have arrived and will be distributed tonight at 7 p.m. at the school slab. Later in the evening after distribution and autographing Dr. L. S. Richardson, superin tendent, will show movies of this year’s state track meet in Austin. The yearbook, called the Tigerland, was edited by Jerry Holmes. Penny Laverty was senior business! manager, and Elsie Richards was junior bus iness manager. Hall Lot ng Rebuilt Iking lot just west of 111 is being rebuilt, and ftl to be about one-half land ready for use by the |of the fall semester, beet will include a storm lystem, concrete curbing, lei topping. Cook broth- luston have the contract brm ventage system, and ler of Bryan will do the furbing and gravel work. is expected to be com bat the middle of October. &£ to C. K. Leighton, con- ■ engineer for the A&M ^jthe project will cost ap- ‘ately $20,000. New PE Gym Will Be Ready by Fail Meyers Resigns As Plant Head Karl F. Meyers resigned his position as poultry plant su pervisor to enter the Univer sity of Texas medical school at Galveston, Texas. His res ignation will be effective Sept. 1. Meyers graduated from A&M with a degree in poultry husbandry in 1951. John L. Skinner has been em ployed as the new poultry plant supervisox*. He begun, his duties Aug. 15. Skinner obtained his BS in poultry husbandry from the Uni versity of Nebi’aska in 1949, and his MS fi'om A&M in 1950. The proposed addition to the. G. Rollie White coliseum will open dux*ing the fall term of 1955, said C. E. Tishlei’, head of the physical education department. Although the completion date was originally set for Feb. 1, 1955, the contractor, R. B. Butler of Bry an, is ali’eady five weeks behind schedule. Also, it will take a long time to apply finishing touches and to in stall lockers after the outside of the building is completed, Tishler said. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Partly cloudy today, with a pos sibility of thunderstorms and rain showers. Yesterday’s maximum temperature was 96 degrees; low this morning, 77. The new addition, which will join the rear of the main building, is for physical education and intra mural athletics. “We will have the facilities for handling 1,000 students per hour,” Tishler said. “We have had about 3,000 students each fall semester for the past three years. However, when our proposed physical edu cation facilities are completed, we can handle approximately double that amount.” One of the outstanding features of the new coliseum wing, accord ing to Tishler, will be the small corrective gymnasium on the ground floor. “Formerly, students with physical handicaps could not participate in many types of sports, but with the cooperation of their family doctors and the college hos pital, students will have the op portunity to take part in modified sports,” said Tishler. The second floor of the building will have rooms for different kinds of indoor sports. Wrestling, fenc ing, and boxing rooms are pro posed. On the third floor, gymnastics and tumbling rooms combined with a large floor will be constructed. The large floor will have enough space to facilitate three basketball, nine badminton, or five volley ball courts. Showers and basket-system lock er rooms will be available; 5,000 small wire baskets will be used to store the students’ gym equipment. MSC Will Close Aug. 28 - Sept. 1 All facilities of the Memorial Student Center will be closed from Saturday, Aug. 28, until 5 p.m., Sept. 1, i according to Helen Atter- bury, MSC secretary. The MSC will re-open Sept. 1 for registration for the Industrial De velopment short course which meets Sept. 2-3. The annual MSC open house for freshmen will be held on Sept. 12 this year. Resources Center To Be Discussed The establishment of a Texas re sources and development center will highlight talks and discussions at the fourth annual Industrial De velopment conference here Sept. 2-3. D. E. Carlson of the indus trial engineering department will chair the conference with an at tendance of 150 expected. Other subjects due for discussion include how we select a branch plant site, by C. H. Topping of E. I. Dupont de Nemours Co. Inc.; the need for local suppliers, Davis M. McMahon, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Dallas; possibilities for a Texas clothing industry expansion, Al fred G. Dale, Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas. Ted Clifford, Texas. Employment Commisison, wil chair this session and L. S. Paine, industrial develop ment section, Engineering Experi ment Station, will chair the after noon session. The establishment of a Texas re sources and development center will be taken up at the afternoon session and comments and opinions from members of the audience will be had. Gordon H. Turrentine of the Houston chamber of commerce will chair the evening session, a ques tion and answer panel. President Kills Raise For Federal Employees DENVER — (A*) — A 5 per cent pay increase for 1.5 million fed eral workers, voted by Congress during the waning hours of its session last week, was killed Monday by President Eisenhower. The action immediately drew fire from labor leaders. The President said he is dis approving the pay hike because the measure fails to provide rev enue to meet the wage boosts and because it “ignores” what he term ed “inequities” in pay rates. He held out hope to the civilian federal workers that they get a wage insrease next year, saying he would renew his recommenda tions to the new Congress. He also said that “certain imperative needs” of members of the armed forces must be met. The armed forces, the President declared, lack adequate medical care for depend ents and reasonable survivorship besefits for their families. President George Meany of the AFL asserted in a statement is sued in Washington that the Pres ident’s action “shows a shocking disregard for the welfare” of gov ernment workers. He said it means “the President is penalizing government workers in retaliation against what he regards as an omission by Congress.” The veto was called by Walter Reuther, CIO president, “a trav esty on economic justice.” He said it is “economically unsound, morally wrong and contrary to the President’s declared policy. The morning session, Sept. 3, will be chaired by R. H. Burchfield, industrial realtor, Houston. Speak ers will be Ben Whitehouse jr\, Reinforced Plastic Co., Ft. Worth, George P. Terry, traffic manager, Houston Port and Traffic bureau, S. A. Lynch, head, geology depart ment and Carlson, industrial en gineering department. Subjects include converting an idea into a local industr-y, the in fluence of transportation costs on plant sites, geological surveys and labor costs. Labor Day Is College Holiday Labor day will be a holiday for the college’s employees this year. The holiday will be observed by all parts of the A&M Sys tem located at College Station, said Dean of the College John Paul Abbott. The 53rd legislature granted the holiday to state employees. The college had not observed the holiday before. Another speech in behalf of Yal borough’s candidacy will be mad| at 8 p.m. in Bryan’s City hall bj Judge Jim Sewell of Corsicana. The other candidate, Allan Shiv ers, is speaking today in Comanche, Goldthwaite, and Brownwood. To morrow he will be in Georgetown, Killeen, Belton, and Temple, and will figure in a night rally in Waco. Bus to Shivers A busload of local Shrverrtes went to San Antonio yesterday to hear the governor speak. The Bra zos county bus was a part of a state-wide cavalcade. College Station voters will cast their ballots at two boxes Satur-i day. Voters in precinct 16 will vote at the Culpepper building, and voters in precinct 3 at A&M Con solidated school. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The qualifications for voting are that the voter must be at least 21 years old and a citizen of the Uni ted States; he must have lived in Texas for at least one year and in this county for at least six months. Service Vote Members on active duty of the regular or permanent army, air force, navy, or marines can not vote, but armed forces personnel who are qualified to vote in Texas and are on extended active duty may vote without paying the poll tax or obtaining an exemption cer tificate. Finally, the voter must have a 1953 poll tax receipt. Persons in College Station who were 60 years of age before Jan. 1, 1953, need not present an exemption certifi cate to the election judges. Exemption Certificate There was some difficulty about this rule at the first primary, Car ter said, because in Bryan, as in all cities with a population over 10,000, voters exempt from the poll tax must get an exemption certifi cate every year. In College Sta tion this is not necessary. A sample ballot for the College Station boxes is on page 2. NEW PREXY—Herb Thompson, new president of the Col lege Station Lions club, accepts the gavel from Lucian Morgan, retiring president. Lions district governor Har old Dreyfuss, of Bryan, looks on.