Battalion
Number 269: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1954
Price 5 Cents
FSA To Give Faculty Awards;
New Military Plan Discussed
HOSTESSES—As far as most of the freshmen were concerned, the bright spot at the
MSC open house Sunday was the local girls as hostesses. Here are (left to right) Chuch
Brices Margaret Berry, Paul Carroll, and Cafol Butler.
Nationalists
Still Pounding
Red Buildup
TAIPEH, Formosa, Tuesday,
SeJ>t. 14—05*)—Nationalist planes,
warships and artillery pounded the
Red mainland without letup yester
day, further damaging the Com
munist buildup opposite Quemoy.
While the artillery of Quemoy
pounded away at Red positions,
the high command of Nationalist
China, accompanied by Vice-Presi
dent Chen Cheng, visited the stra
tegic island seven miles from the
jnainland.
With Chen were Gen. Yu Ta-wei,
iefense minister, who arrived only
yesterday from Washington to take
up his new position, the command
ers of the army, navy and air
force and high Defense Ministry
officials.
An official announcement said
the visitors heard a report from
Gen. Liu Yu-chuang, commander
of the 30,000-man Quemoy garri
son, and made a tour of inspection.
The Defense Ministry • gave few
details of yesterday’s action ex
cept to report that Quemoy’s ar
tillery shelled Tateng Island, a
mile and a half north of Quemoy.
The Communists confined their
faction to occasional gunfire on
ftuemoy and adjacent Little Que
moy. And ' though the present
phase of hostilities was in its
twelfth day today, there still was
no sign of Communist air or naval
counteraction.
Casey To Join
Engineering Staff
Thomas J. Casey, retired naval
captain, has been appointed an as
sociate professor in the mechanical
engineering department, C. W.
Crawford, head of the department,
announced. »
fasey’s last command in the U.S.
Navy was at the post graduate
school at Monterrey, Calif. He
ha$ a master of science degi’ee
fii-om Columbia University, class
of ’23.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Scattered clouds today, clearing
tonight. High yesterday was 89
degrees; low last night was 63
degrees.
Batchelor Case
Witness Discloses
Korea Spy Trial
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 14—(A>>—
A slender, dark-haired man from
Corinth, Miss., testified today that
during his trial on spy charges in
a North Koi*ea prison camp, Cpl.
Claude Batchelor said he should be
shot.
Wilburn Watson, 33, said the spy
charges against him came after
the Chinese Communists found in
his billfold a card showing he was
a deputy sheriff in Tishomingo
County, Miss.
Watson was the final prosecution
witness in Batchelor’s general
court-martial on charges of collab
orating with the enemy.
CHS Enrollment
Up 10 Per Cent
A&M Consolidated schools show
an increase of t®n per cent over
last year’s enrollment, L. S. Rich
ardson, superintendent, said yester
day.
Total enrollment in the elemen
tary school, grades one through
four, is 476, with 115 in the first
grade, 132 in the second, 116 in the
third, and 113 in the fourth.
One hundred two students in the
fifth grade, 98 in the sixth, 75 in
the seventh, and 64 in the eighth
made a total of 339 pupils in the
junior high school.
Two hundred two high school
students enrolled, with 50, 66, 48,
and 38 in grades nine through 12
respectively.
Enrollment at Lincoln school is
about 275, said Richardson. He
expects it to increase later in the
fall to about 350.
He said that there would prob
ably be a small increase in the
white schools too.
Because Consolidated’s new high
school building is not yet complet
ed, high school and junior high
students are sharing the junior
high school building. The gymna
sium, cafeteria, and some offices
are also being used for classrooms.
The new building is expected to
be finished by Sept. 27.
Arrowmoon Holds
Roundup Meeting
Arrowmoon Scout district will
start its fall program' with a
Roundup meeting at the Stephen F.
Austin high school in Bryan at 7:45
p.m. today.
After an opening general ses
sion for all scout leaders, the fol
lowing meetings will be held: Cub
leaders roundtable. Scout leaders
roundtable, Explorer leaders round
table, Arrowmoon district commit
tee meeting, and a commissioner
staff meeting.
Adult leader units due to regis
ter in this area include A&M Con
solidated Mothers and Dads club,
College Station Kiwanis club,
Crockett school Parents and Teach
ers Association, St. Paul Methodist
church. College Station Three Star
Service club, and Heame PTA.
Its Name
Still Means
Girls’ Dorm
A member of the Former
Students association executive
board had what sounds like an
earth-shaking idea at their
meeting here over the week
end.
He wanted to build a gills’
dormitory on the campus.
It was during a discussion
of the Development fund ob
jectives. The man, C. A. Ship-
pley from San Antonio, sug
gested for some time in the
future a “ladies reception cen
ter, or in good old Aggie lan
guage, a girls’ dormitory.”
Turned out that he wanted
the former students to build a
place on the campus where
students could keep weekend
dates, but it gave the meeting
a shock for a while.
Papers showing he had served
as a constable and town marshal
also may have figured in his cap-
tors’ accusation that he was an
American “CIC” agent — presum
ably, Counter-Intelligence Corps—
and “a capitalist running dog who
was captured on purpose to under
mine any teachings the Chinese
were trying to put across to the
POWs.”
Red Officer Testifies
Watson said a Chinese officer
arose at hip trial and told watching
U. S. POWs that it was a Chinese
custom to shoot spies, and that the
officer then asked Batchelor what
he thought.
Watson quoted Batchelor as re
plying:
“In my opinion, Watson is detri
mental to the group remaining be
hind. I go along with the comman
der’s idea. I definitely think the
man should be shot.”
The prosecution rested its case
after testimony today by Watson,
Sgt. Clarence Peterson, 25, Fort
Knox, Ky., and Sgt. John Fields,
30, Gallax, Va.
Fields testified Batchelor told
fellbw POWs over the prison camp
public address system that Ameri
cans on Koje Island—where Red
prisoners were rebelling were
shooting Chinese Communist and
North Korean prisoners' and “feied-
ing them to the K-9 dogs.”
Changed Minds
Batchelor, 22, from Kermit, Tex.,
and 22 other Americans decided
to stay with the Reds after being
captured in Korea. Later he and
Cpl. Edwai-d Dickenson changed
their minds.
Sgt. Peterson, whose home is
Medina, Pa., quoted Batchelor as
having said in his prison camp
broadcast that the atomic spies,
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were
“murdered by the United States.”
Ex-Aggies Praise,
Blast Board Action
After the Former Students association ran through their
order of business in about a half hour Saturday night, they
spent another two hours discussing the new optional military
plan for A&M.
The plan, which says that every student at A&M will be
allowed to choose whether or not he wants to take military
training, drew both fire and-f
praise from the approximate
ly 85 members of the council.
President David H. Morgan
spoke to the council, and then
opened the meeting for a stormy
question-and~ansWer period. The
discussions continued for about an
hour after Morgan left.
Morgan said he neither proposed
nor opposed the board of directors
action in making military optional,
although he said that in his opin
ion it would build a stronger corps
of cadets.
He said he thought the corps of
cadets would be stronger because
no student would be forced to par
ticipate if he did not want to.
Some of the members of the
council shared this view; others
saw the change as an attempt to
“destroy all A&M has stood for.”
One said it would mean the end
of the “Aggie Spirit”; another said
it would create “first and second
class Aggies, who would then be
come first and second class former
students.”
The meeting, which started at
8:30 p.m., ended at midnight.
No official action was taken as
to the former students association’s
stand on the optional military plan.
Five Awards Set
For Appreciation
The Former Students association council decided Satur
day to give five annual Faculty Appreciation awards.
The awards, a part of the 1955 Development fund ob
jectives, are to be given “as a means of recognition, reward
and encouragement to members of the faculty and staff of
the college.”
The awards will be as fol-
Cadet Punished
For Mental Hazing
Students Protest
Segregation End
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
W. Va., Sept. 14—6P)—About 300
high school students, carrying plac
ards reading “No Negroes Wanted
in Our Schools,” paraded in the
streets of this mountain resort
town today.
The students, about three-fourths
of the high school enrollment here,
stayed away from classes to pro
test admittance of 25 Negroes to
their school under West Virginia’s
new integration policy.
Another demonstration took
place in Rupert, about 33 miles
northwest of here where about 100
of the more than 800 in the high
school there, also stayed away
from their classes and marched
through the streets.
A sophomore cadet is being de
nied admission in school for hazing
freshmen.
The cadet, John W. Robertson of
Dallas, was seen Saturday night
at the North Gate area making
freshmen “brace” and “wildcat,”
according to the commandant’s of
fice.
He was formally charged with
“assuming unauthorized authority
as a sophomore private.”
This is in keeping with the new
articles of the cadet corps, which
says that a freshman has to take
orders only from authorized up
perclassmen, those in his military
unit.
The cadet was reported by a col
lege staff member. According to
News Briefs
R. L. ELKINS of the business
administration department is on a
two-week tour of active duty at
the Army War college in Carlisle
Barracks, Pa. Elkins is a colonel
in the army reserve.
* * *
NAVAL AVIATION Cadet
Claude F. Hendrickson, A&M for
mer student, made his first solo
flight recently at the Whiting
Field U. S. Naval auxiliary air sta
tion, Fla. He is from Texarkana.
* * *
A 1953 graduate of A&M, Miles
U. Johnson jr. of Corpus Christi,
has been promoted to first lieu
tenant while serving with the
6006th service unit at Fort Lewis,
Wash.
* * *
JAMES E. POORE, assistant
district leader of the Rodent Con
trol service, is in Denver for a
national conference of all preda
tor animal and rodent control per
sonnel. The meeting will close
Wednesday.
More Freeways
Seen for Future
Texas motorists will soon have
many more miles of expressways,
according to discussions dominat
ing the three-day short course in
highway engineering held in the
Memorial Student Center last
week.
Design, construction and main
tenance of freeways and traffic
control problems were discussed by
a panel of experts.
Possibilities of pre-cast concrete
in highway structures were pointed
out by Truman R. Jones jr., re
search engineer at A&M, who has
been working on concrete struc
ture research.
Douglas A. Nettleton, supervis
ing urban engineer of the Texas
Highway Department at Dallas,
said many considerations are nec
essary in the design of express
ways. Recent traffic counts, he
said, on the Central Expressway
in Dallas showed 5,318 vehicles in
three lanes during the rush hour
between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m.
“Paved shoulders for emergency
parking,” he added, “are a neces
sity on urban freeways. One stall
ed vehicle on the through pave
ment reduces the capacity much
more than the value of one l%ne,
and may result in a complete tieup
in peak hours.”
Other complex problems in de
sign Nettleton listed were surveys
of 24-hour traffic, estimates of lane
capacities and average running
speeds, and consideration of weav
ing-merging and diverging of ve
hicles at entrances and exit ramps.
R. A. Bossy, expressway engi
neer of the state at San Antonio,
showed charts on the progress on
freeways in that city. He went
into the difficulties of horizontal
alignment of arterial routes and
termed rights-of-way most impor
tant in urban work.”
The primary function of an ur
ban expressway,” he said, “is not
to provide a facility for movement
of through traffic entirely across
the city. The smaller volume of
that is an incidental consideration.
The major function is to move traf
fic within the urban area.
L. K. Jonas, chief of supervisor
training for the Texas Engineering
Extension Service, conducted a full
day’s program in accident preven
tion for maintenance foremen and
engineers.
Fred J. Benson of the civil en
gineering department and general
chairman of the short course said
every county in the state was rep
resented in the attendance.
the staff member, it appeared that
Robertson was under the influence
of intoxicating beverages.
A board composed of the com
mandant, the assistant comman
dant, the professor of air science,
and a member of the cadet corps
staff assessed the punishment.
Robertson has appealed to the
executive committee for reinstate
ment as a civilian student. The
executive committee meets Wed
nesday.
Not n Uniform
Robertson was not in uniform
at the time of the hazing. It was
about 7:30 p.m., after the freshmen
had gotten out of a Grove meeting
and were on the way to open
houses in the local churches.
Robertson said he was here early
to bring a friend down to enroll as
a freshman.
“Although sophomores are not
supposed to be here before school
starts,” said Col. Joe Davis, com
mandant, “we wouldn’t have mind
ed if he had conducted himself
properly.”
“This shows that we mean busi
ness,” said President David H.
Morgan.
Morgan said that the A&M Sys
tem board of directors at their
July meeting instructed the ad
ministration to “see that hazing
is eliminated.”
Morgan said the board told him
this meant both physical and men
tal hazing.
Lions To Present
Blind’s Caravan
The College Station Lions club
is presenting the Texas blind shops
caravan at the North Gate until
Saturday.
The caravan sells brooms, mops
and other articles manufactured by
non-profit blind shops or light
houses. All proceeds from the sale
wdll be used for the Texas Lions
league for crippled children and
Lions general fund.
The caravan is open from 8 a.m.
until 6 p.m. each day.
^distinguished
in teaching,”
lows:
Three for
achievement
$500 each.
One for “distinguished achieve
ment in individual student rela
tions,” $500.
One for “distinguished achieve
ment in the field of research,”
$600.
The council also voted to put
$10,000 of the 1955 Development
fund toward the publishing of a
Former Students directory.
Estimated cost of the directory
is $30,000, and the tentative pub
lishing date is 1957.
The president’s discretionary
fund, given to the president of the
college from the Development fund
was increased to $1,500, a $500
raise.
This fund is used by the presi
dent to pay for things for which
there is no money available.
The rest of the $54,000 allocated
for development fund objectives
will go to Opportunity awards,
$10,000, and FSA office operation,
$30,000.
The council made the provision
that all the rest of the donations
to the Development fund be given
to the fund to build a chapel of
meditation and prayer on the A&M
campus.
The council authorized the FSA
executive board to give the A&M
System board of directors $200,000
as soon as possible to build the
chapel.
No definite date of construction
of the chapel was set. A competi
tion to choose an architect is now 1
underway. The competition will
end in February.
The FSA executive board esti
mated that they would have col
lected $150,000 for the chapel by
the end of this year.
The Former Students council,
which is - composed of representa
tives from each A&M club, is the
governing body of the association.
The executive board, which is
composed of the vice-presidents of
the 12 former student districts,
prepares the agenda for the coun
cil meetings.
Overseas Yule Mail
Should Be Sent Soon
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—<A>)—
The Defense Department said to
day that Christmas parcels for
members of the armed forces over
seas should be mailed between Oct.
15 and Nov. 15.
WELCOME—The MSC open house Sunday was also the
president’s reception for the new freshmen. Here Presi
dent and Mrs. David H. Morgan greet a new student. Look
ing on is Bud Whitney, MSC vice-president, and in the
background is Charles Parker, MSC president.